well shit, NC should just elect that neurologist who thinks he's been to heaven and back, kill anyone that advocates peace, and use a nuke to frack that natural gas up to profitability.

Right again, Mr. Chomsky. Then after the rubes have been softened up, enter the smarmy, two-faced Barack Obama, whose plan to save us from global warming is a such a hack job that it's hardly worth the industry shills (like the ones taking up so much space commenting here) to bother with. Like his gift to the insurance industry -- America's sad excuse for "universal health care" -- Obama's environmental "program" is just another load of pretty B.S. thrown up to cover his real agenda, which in this case is to hand over the keys to America's energy industry to people like Dick Cheney, whose hands might as well be guiding the marionette strings coming out of his back. The "president" really doesn't have a choice about pushing natural gas; he sold out to the oiligarchs while still a do-nothing Senator. But that doesn't mean the few of us who are awake and aware shouldn't scream at him about it and do everything in our dwindling power to make him and the rest of the gasoholic cabal wish they'd never been born. Indeed, part of what the moribund U.S. environmental movement needs -- and in particular the fractured and chronically outclassed anti-fracking movement -- is a significantly angrier soundtrack, not bogged down with insipid musical baggage from old, hippy-dippy environmental campaigns. Pete Seeger and his sweet, smiling ilk don't cut through all the background noise any more. With that in mind, here's a new American anthem guaranteed to stir the soul of any red-blooded environmentalist, as well as lure a few emotionally sensitive people over from the dark side. Feel free to use it. Scream your anger! soundcloud.com/biff-thuringer/to-america

Don't worry Yoko. NO ONE wants to frack you.

Don't frack it up!

*related="http://videosift.com/video/Sean-Lennon-Yoko-Ono-Jimmy-Dont-Frack-My-Mother"

More stupid liberals crying wolf.

Frack on.

@bmacs27 it isn't that hard to control if you understand the deposit, and fracking is just one tool in a belt of different options in horizontal drilling gas extraction. We have been doing it in Texas for the better part of a decade. Most of those horror movies we have seen of people lighting their water on fire has all been in Pennsylvania, so it is something kind of specific to those "ass holes" (mining companies). With that said, I an't the biggest fracking supporter, but if it destabilizes coal, perhaps it isn't all that terrible.

My understanding is that the fracking isn't very easy to control. Basically, they're using pressure to fracture shale, but it's impossible to know exactly how it will fracture. You end up with these little natty gas springs everywhere.

That said, it's important to note that this sort of thing can also occur naturally. That's really been the issue with all of the legal challenges is that you need to demonstrate beyond all doubt that the contamination was the direct result of a fracked well nearby, not just natural geological activity.

Yes, this is part of the new gas extraction craze taking off around the world. In many cases, the natural gas, including methane, isn't worth collecting, it is easier to just burn it then to try and sell it. Usually they are after the liquid hydrocarbons in these new deposits that horizontal mining has allowed access too. One might point to some sinister aim in this kind of venting, but I imagine this offgassing happened outside their control, bubbling up outside of their containment. This can happen if care isn't taken or some geological factor comes into play which you didn't account for...it is a pretty neat science actually, gives geologists something new to do and map out. Generally speaking, if your venting gasses, your also venting the stuff you are trying to collect, which is undesirable, even more so if it is the gasses your after (and depending on the regional prices, that is usually what they are after, australian deposites are usually pretty low in liquid hydrocarbons, meaning they are usually after gas in the land down under). I just posted a very long winded video on the subject if you wish to learn more details about the environmental and health impacts of fracking and new gas extractions technologies. In the end, it might just be a new hydrocarbon to burn and throw into the atmosphere and cause harm. Butin the short term, it might be a good tool for destroying the coal lobby making way for actual low carbon systems to come online like solar, wind and nuclear. Like all things in life, its complicated with benefits and consequences.

I know bugger all about this, but wouldn't this be actually useful for something? Do they just let it get out like this with no care as they're after other things, or can they not control this when using fracking?

The Govt. rolled over on this one, CSG fracking has been well under way for a while now in Aus. I read a while back a commission was setup to examine the risks of drilling, and the Greens wanted a moratorium until the commission was complete (5 years), but not sure of the outcomes of that.

Totally fracking gay

and I loved it

That actually is an interesting point.

Given that he is Mormon, however, this incident comes across as willfully ignorant on religious grounds rather than a busy man with other priorities.

Make no mistake about Mormons and gay issues -- the very basis of their religion is procreation to bring forth souls from the pre-life. Being gay strikes at the foundation of their faith.

Does it make sense, given that they don't force infertile couples to divorce or refuse to allow the elderly to marry? No, of course not. Who said religion MAKES FRICKING FRACKING SENSE?


>> ^fritzo9602:

I like how if a politician isn't making a certain subject a priority, it means he's totally against it.

Mine was when the bodyguard was arming up to provide protection, and the lead scientist said something like "put that away, this is a scientific expedition!"

As if scientific exploration for hundreds of years didn't have fricking fracking guards as they went into unknown environments.

Still pisses me off.


>> ^redyellowblue:

First stupid moment for me was Worm eye dude who said. "6 hours of day light left. phhhh, lets suit up and go out there. I wanna open my birthday presents" Dude, you just landed on an alien planet in a spaceship hotel. Maybe take your time? Survey the area thoroughly before going ALL THE WAY inside.