Water-retaining man to have gas in front of congress

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

H20 Man
Please Help! Important!
Dear Friends:

Josh Fox, the director of the powerful documentary “Gasland,” asked me this evening to get the following message out. This is something that everyone can do. And it is extremely important.

I'll add that “Gasland 2” is going to knock the socks off of the professional liars from the gas corporations, and their parrots and puppets in the government and media.

Please help us on this! It really is more important than I can say at this time. But I'm going to have more – much more – to say in the next few days.

Who knows? Maybe we'll have a DU interview with Josh Fox.

Thank you for your support on this.

Peace,
Pat


NEWSFLASH. URGENT. Tomorrow there is an important fracking hearing in DC. The House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment will hold hearings on EPA's testing in Pavillion Wyoming. Josh and his crew are being told they cannot film the hearing. CALL OR EMAIL CONGRESS NOW! Tell them Josh should be allowed in to film the hearing. It's guaranteed in the first amendment! Call tonight thru tomorrow morning. Thank you! Please repost!
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[Rugnuts]

he got arrested, lol

[Chris_]

The committee chairman has the discretion on whether to allow uncredentialed members of the media to film hearings, according to a democratic staffer.  An ABC news crew was also turned away from the hearing.

Politico

Someone forgot their Press hat.

[franksolich]

Okay, here's something I've been thinking about.

I'm not necessarily fond of "fracking"--I am however very fond of all attempts to allow Americans the cheapest possible sort of energy--but there's something that bothers me about the anti-fracking nuts.

They're worried about poisons and other chemicals getting into their drinking water.

Uh, given that political machines and bosses have dominated so much of New York for so long, I'm curious as to how safe the water's been anyway, given the propensity of corrupt Democrat bosses to let their cronies, their payers-off, get away with contaminating things.  

Public health and safety has always been at risk in corrupt political systems.

Given that, and given the pervasive disregard for public health and safety that corrupt machines have, I'm even sort of wondering if what fracking adds to the water, might not actually make it better, safer, cleaner.

[Rugnuts]

i would like to believe they dont drill right into known aquifers then frack
you dont have to be a enviro nut to see what would happen.

[BlueStateSaint]

Okay, here's something I've been thinking about.

I'm not necessarily fond of "fracking"--I am however very fond of all attempts to allow Americans the cheapest possible sort of energy--but there's something that bothers me about the anti-fracking nuts.

They're worried about poisons and other chemicals getting into their drinking water.

Uh, given that political machines and bosses have dominated so much of New York for so long, I'm curious as to how safe the water's been anyway, given the propensity of corrupt Democrat bosses to let their cronies, their payers-off, get away with contaminating things.  

Public health and safety has always been at risk in corrupt political systems.

Given that, and given the pervasive disregard for public health and safety that corrupt machines have, I'm even sort of wondering if what fracking adds to the water, might not actually make it better, safer, cleaner.

Frank, I've both tested drinking water (though not NYC's), and seen a fair amount of the upstate NYC Water system, and it comes down to this:  The people who run the various WTPs, STPs, and reservoirs are damned good people.  They realize that they serve the Greater Good, and not the political Machines.

Now, as to the effects of fracking and the chemicals associated with such, a saying from my water testing days comes to mind:  Dilution is the solution to pollution.  The main sewage treatment plant for NYC treats over 1 billion gallons of sewage a day (at least that's what the head of one of the NYC STPs in the Catskills told me).  If a billion gallons of sewage is treated every day, imagine how many billions of gallons of water goes into the system.  One could probably take all of the chemicals used in fracking in Texas, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and New York, and they'd probably be filtered out with room to spare.

[Rugnuts]

BSS
if the chemicals get into the aquifer that my well goes into, there is no further dilution/filtering other than my house filter. unless you mean the trillions of gallons of water in the aquifer is so much that it doesnt matter what chemical get into it. i disagree. especially with the ethanol plants sprouting up like weeds around here. they take so much water that it cannot replenish fast enough. concentrating the contaminants in my water.