3 Fracking Facts That Gov. Perry Forgot to Mention
New Yorkers Against Fracking | April 22, 2014 4:07 pm |
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"In response to Texas Gov. Rick Perry ®’s wild claims about
fracking on Fred Dicker’s Talk 1300 Radio program this morning, John Armstrong of
Frack Action, on behalf of
New Yorkers Against Fracking, wanted to remind Gov. Perry about some of the facts he forgot.
Fracking wells south of the West Texas town of Odessa.
Photo credit: Dennis Dimick / Flickr.
“Governor Perry suffered another colossal ‘oops’ failure today, forgetting the harms fracking is
causing Texans each day under his administration,” said Armstrong. “Although he’s in New York for ‘job recruitment,’ we expect he’s going to find that contaminated water, toxic air and a range of negative health impacts are not selling points. While he enjoys clean, frack-free New York water and air, we took the liberty of writing down three facts for Governor Perry.”
1. Fracking contaminates water: A University of Texas study linked fracking to drinking water contamination with arsenic. The head of Texas A&M University’s Petroleum Engineering Department recently noted inherent problems with fracking. That’s in line with 2013 and 2011 studies from Duke University, high well casing failure rates, and widespread water contamination.
2. Fracking pollutes the air: An eight-month investigation recently revealed that fracking is releasing a “toxic soup of chemicals” into the air, linked to hundreds of reports of sickness, and that Gov. Perry’s administration is failing to monitor or address the situation. That’s even though the Colorado School of Public Health has identified air pollutants by fracking sites at sufficient levels to raise risks for cancer, neurological deficits and respiratory problems,
American Lung Association data show alarming levels of air pollution near fracking, and a recent study found high levels of benzene and volatile organic compounds at fracking sites in rural Utah.
3. Fracking causes earthquakes: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources linked fracking to earthquakes this month, just as earthquakes have been tied to fracking in the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere in the U.S. And Texas has its own history of earthquakes linked to fracking wastewater deep injection wells."
http://ecowatch.com/...got-to-mention/
""Purdue and Cornell Researchers Find Up to 1,000 Times More Methane Emissions Than Estimated in Drilling Phase
Brandon Baker | April 15, 2014 11:23 am | Comments
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Because natural gas has less carbon than dirty coal, gas producers and even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have applauded it as a cleaner alternative. Hopefully, a joint study from researchers at two universities will change that.
Purdue and Cornell universities on Monday released a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America with data on higher-than-expected methane levels found above shale gas wells.
The researchers used a “top-down” approach, flying over seven well pads of the Marcellus shale formation in southwestern Pennsylvania. They accounted for less than 1 percent of the wells in Southwestern Pennsylvania and were only in the drilling stage, which usually isn’t when the emissions take place."
http://ecowatch.com/...hane-emissions/
Then this happy HS put out by the petro industry;
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Appalling Earth Day Video Actually Thanks Fracking For Reducing Carbon Emissions
Brandon Baker | April 22, 2014 12:16 pm |
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It would have been hard to miss the reports of
earthquakes,
explosions,
lack of clean air, nosebleeds and more attributed to
fracking.
These type of stories have been all over every form of media imaginable in recent years.
But according to Energy In Depth (EID), a campaign launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America, those stories have apparently been drowning out the real story—that fracking is somehow responsible for the
drop in carbon dioxide emissions.
Yes, this group actually released a video on
Earth Day thanking shale gas and fracking for decreasing emissions. You have to see it—and its out-of-context remarks and data—to believe it:"
http://ecowatch.com/...video-fracking/
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stone idiot and a liar.
My bad.