No fracking waste in Connecticut for the next 3 years 2014

Conrad Allen Hundreds of people have been affected by accidents at fracking sites.  Can you imagine not having clean water come out of the faucets of your family home due to chemicals from fracking seeping into your water table.  

Investing in green and renewable energy makes more sense to me rather than pouring sand, water and numerous very toxic chemicals in the ground.  These chemicals are kept as a "trade secret"  because they are very dangerous compounds.  And the public would be aghast to know exactly whats being poured past their water table.

Your welcome Barbara. Btw, I havent told you, you look great. Keep up the good work 

Conrad Allen, Is having more natural gas more urgent of a need than having access to clean water?

We can(and have) survived without gas and oil more than we could survive without clean water. Water is essential to life, gas and oil are not.

The EPA and scientists have found a correlation between water pollution and fracking.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-fracking/

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143386908/epa-connects-fracking-with-water-contamination

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml

“…A major study, the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture,

reveals that one in three people today face water shortages (CA, 2007). Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world’s population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world’s population, face economic water shortage…Scarcity is also a question of water quality. Freshwater bodies have a limited capacity  to process the pollutant charges of the effluents from expanding urban, industrial and agricultural uses. Water quality degradation can be a major cause of water scarcity….In the last century, the world population has tripled. It is expected to rise from the present 6.5 billion to 8.9 billion by 2050, before leveling off. Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, and, although there is no global water scarcity as such, an increasing number of regions are chronically short of water. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under conditions of water stress. The situation will be exacerbated as rapidly growing urban areas place heavy pressure on local water resources.” -http://www.fao.org/nr/water/docs/escarcity.pdf

Fracking can cause some pretty big messes.

Conrad Allen Having wells fracked to allow water flow is not the same process as fracking trying to extract gas from shale.  Only high pressure water is used to open up water wells.  Fracking for gas involves many dangerous chemicals as well as water to extract the gas.  

Jeff Jensen it certainly has caused huge messes for some homeowners.  And the way energy companies have dealt with leaks and accidents is not comendable by anyone standards.

This is another very good petition to send to congress;

https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3181&s_src=slider&__utma=44879099.1299656614.1410364357.1410364357.1412083086.2&__utmb=44879099.3.9.1412083119757&__utmc=44879099&__utmx=-&__utmz=44879099.1412083086.2.2.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)&__utmv=-&__utmk=173147686

Conrad Allen , where did you source this list of chemicals?  And what makes you feel all these are completely harmless?  Do you feel 100% confident about your water supply if these chemicals are being poured past it? 

The material safety data sheets on these chemicals are available through this link, they dont strike me as innocuous and harmless.

http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used

Based on this map created by the national institute of health I'd say we already have too many environmental waste sites, and fracking has and will continue to add to this;

http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/flex/

Barbara Todaro  , My father is an environmental scientist and deals with assessing environmental contamination all over the world.  I must admit this is my first encounter with someone who supports fracking. 

Touchy subject here in California, and particulary here in Santa Barbara as Proposition P with the Oil and Fracking related industries pouring a ton of money into their ad campaign.  The even have a Fireman stating Santa Barbara County will be less safe from fires if fracking isn't allowed.  The thinking the revenues from the oil industry to Santa Barbara will lessen if this isn't allowed. Incredible sales tactics!  

Since were in an Oil based economy the liklihood of anyone believing in any of the scientific data is the problem.  The status quo will not be deterred.  Bascially, enjoy the next forty years, after that it's anyone's guesss...

There's talk of privatizing water on the right.  Once the aquafirs are destroyed that might be the only option?  Brillant hunh?

I saw this article about fracking chemicals contaminating aquifiers in California;

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/26301-confirmed-billions-of-gallons-of-fracking-waste-contaminate-drought-ravaged-californias-aquifers

The fracking process uses an absurd amount of water, and California is the last place that has water to spare for this questionable process.

Aloha Barbara,

The US is currently the largest exporter of Sweet Crude in the world, largely do to fracking for oil. In 2008 we were told we were rapidly running out of oil. Today, we are producing so much we are now the largest oil producer in the world. It is making many people rich and thus will stymie any regulation.

It's called the Corporate Trust Racket. It's where corporations hide the chemicals they use in order to see unmitigated financial gain. They say "trust us" we won't harm you.

Low and behold we find out later that the Government oversight is suddenly managed by former oil executives. Your Senators and Congresspersons have received large campaign contributions from energy companies, the scientists have received enormous research grants "proving" the safety of undisclosed chemical compounds and their interactions with the environment, and we the people have higher gas prices, contaminated living environments, and mysterious debilitating health issues.

The same can be said for BIG AG and the likes of Monsanto and Syngenta, and BIG PHARMA and the likes of Eli Lilly and Pfizer and any Corporation who says trust us; our patented products require your ignorance in order to work.

You will be assailed as being ignorant for beliving that they can't be trusted, because after all science is science not superstition. But I say GREED is GREED and any result can be "fixed" and justified especially  when enormous profits are to be made. 

peace,

Mark Lomas 

I read recently that the aquifers have been contaminated, this is proof that the consequences of accidents from fracking are not acceptable!

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/11/report-confirms-fracking-poisoning-californias-dwindling-aquifers.html

I wonder if the companies will spend as much cleaning the contamination as they will have spent on lobbying. Usually companies polluting put up lengthy fights to avoid cleaning environmental mishaps ie. GE in the Hudson river.

Water must remain a public resource and everyone should have a right to clean water.  Privatizing water is such a disaster; I’d whole heartedly support movements to prevent it.

Kimo (Im having trouble tagging), 

Thank you for your supportive comments.  Big Ag and Pharma definitely need to have less control over government policy.  The plans are to export the gas from fracking, so the American public is risking contamination of their ground water for energy companies to be able to make profits selling it overseas.

Since fracking has been so prolific lately I wonder what effect the EPA really has anymore in protecting the public from toxins.  Especially, when they shut down a lawsuit against a company that contaminated the groundwater in Weatherford Texas.

http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/02/05/ed-rendell-range-resources-obama-epa-texas-fracking-water-contamination-lawsuit

I also found this list of major reasons fracking is harmful;

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26367-9-good-reasons-to-ban-fracking-immediately