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Otisburg?

OTISBURG?

The EPA has said it causes contamination of groundwater, but that's OK.

Does anyone remember all the acid mine drainage that was only recently partially mitigated? How does a coal mining region forget this shiat?


/John Prine unavailable for comment

Director Jim Zehringer said during a news teleconference that fracking is not causing the quakes.

"The seismic events are not a direct result of fracking,"

Lipo:

Then where's the resistance movement? Why don't we hear anything about people being against this stuff?

/Why is there a uhaul with a coroplast sign ziptied to the grill in a parade that wants national notoriety?

thelordofcheese: The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale. But Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Jim Zehringer a corrupt shill with suspect credentials said during a news teleconference that fracking is not causing the quakes.

Actually, Jim Zerringer is not a corrupt shill. He's a Mercer County farm boy. He's not lined with cash like most politicians.

/not yet

If you live in Michigan write your damn representative and ask them to support the fracking legislation that was introduced in November.

It does not ban it - but it does a) require them to pay any needed goddamn cleanup costs (they don't have to now), b) requires the disclosure of the chemicals used, c) requires actual research into what safety procedures and monitoring is needed, and d) imposes a moratorium until these can be met. And e) eliminates their exemption from water withdrawal rules.

Over the last month, I've heard with a scary increasing frequency about people being approached to sell rights to frack on their land. After all this crap other states have gone through, and considering the Great Lakes are all we have going for us when times are tough in this state, it's stupid as hell to give these companies a carte blanche.

There are already two drilling sites up north, one about to be done, and I've heard of people being approached damn near everywhere else in the LP, from the Thumb down to Adrian and everywhere between.

EIP if you want bill numbers and more details.

BGates: An injection well is a disposal well for "brine wastewater" or what normal people industry apologists call produced water.

BGates: When wells produce oil and gas they generally produce water along with it. use absurd amounts of water mixed with a proprietary chemical cocktail

ftfy

Yup, fracking is the one invasive, destructive, earth altering process that carries no hidden expenses, hazards or down line costs to the suckers using the fuel.

Frack away you greedy lying mother rapers.