The ANC’s Ministry of Environmental and Energy Affairs is seriously considering allowing fracking in the Karoo basin. The ANC want to provide jobs for a few people in the Karoo. What about protecting the drinking water, land and air of the citizens who elected them into power?
Fracking fluids contain high levels of ethane, methane, and benzene. Chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) “is also used in fracking and drilling. The public have no way of knowing what’s in fracking fluids because the chemicals used are a “trade secret,”or rather, many trade secrets.
FRACKING CAUSES FURTHER ROCK FRACTURES, and the toxic chemicals are meant to prop open the rock.
During fracking millions of litres of water, sand and numerous chemicals- most of which are toxic, carcinogic and teratogenic (they include benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylene, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), diesel fuel, naphthalene (moth ball) compounds, boric acid, arsenic, poly nuclear organic hydrocarbons, only to name a few of 500-odd chemicals used), are pumped into boreholes at high pressure to release natural gas (called shale gas) trapped in layers of underground rock.
Fracking contaminates entire water tables, and weakens stability of rock through high pressure fracturing . This has led to an earthquake in New Arkansas in the US and who knows where else already.
FRACKING CAUSES ROCK FRACTURES and the toxic chemicals are meant to prop open the rock and keep the fractures open, causing further cracks in the rock table.
In some areas people are able to light their drinking water into flame with a lighter. The water causes rashes, fainting as a result of the chemicals in the water released into the shower area. It also causes the hair of animals to fall out and, of course, all plants and insect life to die in a wide swathe several kilometres out from the fracking site area.
Below is other information on post-fracking environmental impact studies and documented environmental damage.
It travels silently underground poisoning your water.
It floats invisibly above, polluting the air your children, animals and you breathe.
It contaminates the Earth beneath your feet.
It stalks the halls of the Texas State Capitol, greasing the palms of weak and greedy men and women.
They in turn have created a Free Pass for this trespasser.
It floats invisibly above, polluting the air your children, animals and you breathe.
It contaminates the Earth beneath your feet.
It stalks the halls of the Texas State Capitol, greasing the palms of weak and greedy men and women.
They in turn have created a Free Pass for this trespasser.
Information on the consequences of fracking on people in one farming community: A Colossal Fracking Mess
Quote: “I own farm land in mid eastern Alberta. We had really good clear water from our 200ft well up until last year. Now the water smells really bad and is a grey colour, it will clear if it's run for a long time but the colour and smell return within a few hours of being turned off. The only thing that is different or new in the area are GAS WELLS.” written by Chuck , November 29, 2010
For information on the damage fracking has already caused, visit http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-guest-blog-for-earthjustice.html#links – DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Study: Shale Gas Threatens Human Health
Hydraulic Fracturing
- Frackers Receive Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order from EPA
- My statement at the EPA hydraulic fracturing meeting
- If hydraulic fracturing is so safe, why does Halliburton need indemnification?
- TEXAS HAS NO REGULATION SPECIFIC TO HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
- Life Cycle Modeling of Wellbore Cement Systems Used for Enhanced Geothermal System Development
- Why are drilling induced earthquakes acceptable while geothermal earthquakes aren't?
- EPA Confirms Drinking Water Contamination By Toxics Used in Fracturing
- Breaking! Chesapeake Official Admits: Fracking Fluid Deadly!
- Update on Cattle Killed by Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid in Louisiana
- Face-Off Over 'Fracking': Water Battle Brews On Hill
- Tell Congress to close the "Halliburton Loophole" to protect drinking water from contamination
- Hydraulic Fracture: Oops! Wrong Formation!
- Hexavalent Chromium Used for Hydraulic Fracturing
- Midland Hexavalent Chromium Contamination Spreads. Hydraulic Fracture Giant Still Prime Suspect.
- Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
- Hydraulic Fracture: Your Money or Your Life
- Hydraulic Fracturing: Me thinks thou dost protest too much
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Barnett Shale Earthquakes: Some Fracking History
- Hydraulic Fracture: The Truth About State versus Federal Regulation
- Contamination Case Pending on Hydraulic Fracturing Giant Schlumberger
- Close the Halliburton Loophole
- EPA Admits Hydraulic Fracturing Risks Needs More Study
- Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Kills Cattle Near Chesapeake Well
- Hydraulic Fracture: Precise or Imprecise?
- Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
- Video: Hydraulic Fracture - Barnett Shale Gas Well
- If hydraulic fracturing is so damn safe, why does Big Oil need exemptions?
- Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
- Viewer Reactions to Hydraulic Fracturing Film
- Fracing Fluid Chemicals Identified
- Dick Cheney and Halliburton Fracking in YOUR Drinking Water.
Natural Gas: Myth Busting the Clean Energy and Keeping Us Safer Lies
Water: Depletion
- Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
- Barnett Shale Water Use: The Facts You Must Face.
- Barnett Shale Drilling: An Insatiable Thirst
- Devon Energy Testing New Water Recycling Program
- We Have a Groundwater District!
- Upper Trinity Ground Water Conservation District
- Groundwater Conservation Districts are a good first step
Water: Pollution
- Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
- Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
- Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
- Dick Cheney and Halliburton: Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals in YOUR Drinking Water.
- “Hydraulic Fracturing” of [Barnett] Shale, America Strikes a Faustian Bargain
- Fire Water: With Compliments From EnCana
- Another Story of Water Poisoned by Gas Wells
- Poisoned Aquifer: Barnett Shale, fracing up our water.
- Burning Water Compliments of the Barnett Shale
- Five Years Later, Panola County Citizens Finally Get Clean Water
- Drilling Waste Poisons Water, Goats Die, Railroad Commission Yawns
- Gas Well Contaminates Water Wells With Benzene
- Texas Egregiously Exceeded Permits.
- Don't Drink the Water
- Barnett Shale drilling: Depleting and polluting our water in Wise County, Texas
- Will Wise County get Fort Worth's Barnett Shale drilling waste water?
Air Pollution
- Texas OGAP interactive map shows TCEQ air monitoring locations
- A Victory for Barnett Shale Communities!
- Governor Perry doesn't want to reduce the pollutants in our air.
- Barnett Shale Compressor Station Can Emit 6 Times More VOC's Than Cement Plant
- Find Fugitive Emission Videos in Your Area
- Barnett Shale Victim: DISH, TX Resident Tested Positive for Carbon Disulfide
- EDF Analysis: Barnett Shale Drilling Causes Polluted Air
- Dear EPA: TX Regulators too Conflicted to Regulate
- NPR: State Tests Air Around Drilling And Pipeline Sites
- "Clean-burning" Natural Gas has a Dirty Secret - Caught on Video
- Seeing Methane Leaks Through an Infrared Camera
- BREAKING: Methane 3 times higher than normal in DISH, TX
- Barnett Shale: The Personal Tragedies of DISH, Texas
- City reports toxic results of study of natural gas complex
- What the Barnett Shale Brought to DISH,TX
- In DISH, TX, Animals Go To Sleep and Never Wake Up
- Does the gas industry threaten your health?
- URGENT: Health Survey For All Current and Former Clark/DISH, Texas Residents
- Evaluation of Town of DISH, Texas Ambient Air Monitoring Analysis
- STATE DATA SUPPORTS CONCLUSIONS OF EDF/SMU STUDY ON BARNETT SHALE EMISSIONS
- Report: Emissions from Natural Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Area
- Video Shows Emissions From Barnett Shale Drilling Rig In Denton County, Texas
- Devon Has Duty to Minimize Air Pollution. (And they can afford it!)
- Want Cancer? Move to Texas.
- Gas Extraction Causes Ozone Alerts in Wyoming
- Chesapeake Energy: Latest Plan for Drilling Waste
- The Domestic Drilling Agenda: How We Can Protect Ourselves From the Environmental Devastation
Radioactive Drilling Waste
- Radioactive Drilling Sand
- Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste is Bone-Seeking Carcinogen When Airborne and Has 1622 Year Half-Life
- RRC Has Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy on Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste
- Barnett Shale and NORM - Eye Opening News
Sludge Pits
- More Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Pollution Pictures
- PIctures of Barnett Shale Pollution in Wise County
- A Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Looks Like This
Injection/Disposal Wells
- They Call Them Saltwater Disposal/Injection Wells
- Injection Well In Aledo Fails.
- Texas Injection Wells and Sinkhole Make National News
- Another Injection Well Fire Burns for Seven Hours
- How Are Injection Well and Gas Coupling Inspections Alike?
- An Injection Well, Up Close and Personal.
- Update: Injection Well Fire! NOT the First Time
- Oh Lookie! One Of Those "Safe" Injection Wells is On Fire
- Stop The Lies: Read This Injection Well Permit
Pipelines and Explosions
Big Oil and Big Money Buys Big Influence
- Big Oil. HUGE Money. ENORMOUS Influence.
- Oil and Gas Profits Used to Lobby Against You and Me
- Devon Energy: $2.6 Billion Profit Buys Lobbyist
- Devon Energy Net for 2007: $3.6 billion
Noise Pollution & Quality of Life
- Barnett Shale Gas Well Compressor Noise Tortures Wise County
- Are you terrorized by Barnett Shale compressor noise?
- Shelley Fell Into the Barnett Shale Hell
Massive operation to contain hydraulic fracturing fluid at Chesapeake well
Another hydraulic fracturing accident at a Chesapeake well.
Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County
Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County
A massive operation is underway in Bradford County to deal with a spill at a natural gas well in LeRoy Township near Canton.
By now you know the drill...sorry.
- They were fracking,
- the well blew out at the surface,
- thousands and thousands or dangerous chemicals are flowing all over the place.
· through fields
· over personal property and farms
· even where cattle graze
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
House Explodes in Quitman Arkansas. Natural Gas In Water Well Nearby!
We last posted an article about a water well on Locust Street in Quitman which has natural gas spewing out of it. Since that time, some residents in that neighborhood have complained of headaches and feeling sick all the time. A few residents have filmed the water well bubbling and spewing gas out of the abandoned water well. Residents in the Locust Street neighborhood have been voicing their fears of gas migration in the area. One woman actually passed out in her own home and has constant headaches. Fox says the gas well is scheduled to be capped off tomorrow. This neighbor is very frightened that the gas well being capped off will cause more gas to migrate into their home. The family of the house that exploded escaped harm, but the house was charred to its bare frame. Fox 16 reports.
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