10 reasons fracking is a bad idea: 1. All steel rusts. All concrete cracks. Louis Allstadt former Executive VP of Mobil Oil confirms it. He says: Sooner or later the steel casing is going to rust out, and the cement is going to crumble. We may have better cements now, we may have slightly better techniques of packing the cement and mud into the well bore to close it up, but even if nothing comes up through the fissures in the rock layers above, where it was fracked, those well bores will deteriorate over time. And there is at least one study showing that 100 percent of plugs installed in abandoned wells fail within 100 years and many of them much sooner. truth-out.org/news/item/17605-former-mobil-vp-warns-of-fracking-and-climate-change Concrete crumbles. Steel rusts. In the United States since the year 2000, sixteen bridges have collapsed. The Federal National Bridge Inventory reports 85,000 U.S. bridges are in bad shape and need to be replaced. What are bridges made of? Steel and concrete. What does the fracking industry use to keep deadly chemicals out of our drinking water? Steel and concrete. They bury steel pipes thousands of feet underground, fill them with fracked water, effluents and sand, put them under a tremendous amount of pressure, wait for 20% to 80% of the toxic and radioactive inside the steel pipes with an inch of concrete. Then they tell you everything’s going to be okay. You don’t have to worry that fracked water is poisoned with more than 600 toxic and radioactive chemicals. Out of sight is outta mind. Thats why were fighting for a moratorium. The poison is eventually going to end up in your water because all steel rusts. The question is this. Why are we betting against a natural process everyone understands and expecting everything to work out to our advantage? All steel rusts. Doesn’t that single fact unhinge all the fracking science? Who is going to check those steel pipes in a few generations when all the fracking money is gone and the pipes are still down there in the dark getting rustier and rustier. Don’t be fooled. They are going to hand this problem back to you and you’re the one who will have to find the solution. Not them. They’re in it for the money and if you’ll sell your water cheap, they’ll certainly take that to the bank. 2. Earthquakes go hand in hand with fracking. Since we are between two active earthquake zones, youre going to want to take a look at this report. fullerfuture.files.wordpress/2013/12/frackingindustrializationandinducedearthquakes-12-2-13.pdf 3. The USGS says we should treat water as if it is all coming from the same source because it does. We cant keep it separate. Fracking operations dump 10 trillion gallons of toxic liquids into Class II injection wells using broad expanses of the nations geology as an invisible dumping ground. 4. The Bonds the fracking companies put up to do the work wont be high enough to clean up the environment; if anything goes wrong itll be up the taxpayers to flip the bill. 5. Your infrastructure is going to be undermined. That goes for roads, utilities, health care and police. fullerfuture.files.wordpress/2013/12/roadway-degradation-costs-due-to-mass-fracking-industrialization.pdf 6. Crime rates are going to sky-rocket ... especially crimes against women because of the kinds of people these jobs attract. They are drifters with high risk jobs, working hard and playing harder. 7. Fracking is a 24 hour round the clock operation. The noise is not going to end. The lights are never going to go off. The industrialization of your lives will be complete. I guess with fracking industrialization operations a mile apart, there wont be much wilderness left even in rural areas. National parks arent even safe. 8. When the fracking lottery comes to town, some people will make money selling their mineral rights. Some people will get poisoned. Doctors wont know what people are poisoned with because the industry doesnt want to divulge the ingredients of its fracking effluent. Theyre protected as trade secrets. Rest assured with hundreds of toxic ingredients, fracking effluent is even more toxic once you put those poisons together. Many ingredients have 10 serious health side effects on their own. 9. And you know were going to run out of clean water, right? According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. By 2025 an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity with two thirds of the worlds population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change. 10. The IDNR regulating radiation doesnt keep it from hurting anyone. If we want to find out whats beyond the Thunderdome, were going to have to take care of the next generation. Not give our children harder problems to solve than the ones we have. Frédéric Bastiat sums up our dilemma: When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them. Read the transcriptbillmoyers/segment/chris-hedges-on-capitalism%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98sacrifice-zones%E2%80%99/ nature/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11018.html boulderweekly/article-13435-who-killed-the-vote-on-fracking.html stuarthsmith/the-most-damning-evidence-against-fracking-yet/ desmogblog/2014/10/07/central-california-aquifers-contaminated-billions-gallons-fracking-wastewater
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