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Need more people like Richard and less people thousands of miles away determining your fate.

Why is it that "Haliburton" comes up every time you mention Big Business, President Bush, Government Exemptions, or companies that do what they want and ignore all rules and laws and have no concern for the general public?

Shazbot!

tee hee: "until very recently companies held secret the ingredients and recipies of their fracking fluids... "

I also live on top of natural gas shale. It's happening in my town too.

http://texasvox.org/2010/12/08/flammable-water-in-homes-west-of-fort-worth/

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Described in last years' documentary film 'Gasland':
http://videosift.com/video/Gasland-An-Expos-of-US-Natural-Gas-Drilling-Practices

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

I was misled by the title.


What the frack are you talking about?

>> ^peggedbea:

I also live on top of natural gas shale. It's happening in my town too.
http://texasvox.org/2010/12/08/flammable-water-in-homes-west-of-for
t-worth/


Maybe your utilities should take measures? I'm sure it's not too difficult to degas the water before piping it into the municipal water grid.

>> ^cybrbeast:

>> ^peggedbea:
I also live on top of natural gas shale. It's happening in my town too.
http://texasvox.org/2010/12/08/flammable-water-in-homes-west-of-for
t-worth/

Maybe your utilities should take measures? I'm sure it's not too difficult to degas the water before piping it into the municipal water grid.


Rural pennsylvania does not have a municipal water grid. Each home, farm, or development has it's own wells which pump water up from deep underground. So the only way that gas companies could do it is to install a water filtration system in every home.

I agree that this type of rural water wells have always had methane problems, but the guy who lights his water on fire and has the lawsuit - I'm sure he didn't have nearly as many problems before granting the gas drilling rights.

Also, it is within rights of a municipality to ban drilling - for example recently Pittsburgh voted to ban drilling rights within city limits. Also, at least in Allegheny county PA, homeowners don't retain the mineral rights (including drilling), so other townships can vote similar. There is a distinction between homesteads and farmsteads though, but I don't own a farm so I'm not familiar.

Personally I'm not against natural gas drilling, but I'm against the contractors who are doing it, and the corners they are cutting to save a buck. And even if you installed a Dean-Kamen-style water purifier in every home, the contaminants and heavy metals in the run-off will go to all the streams, rivers, lakes, tributaries and have a definite negative impact on the environment.

I live in Ohio. I just had a new water well dug this past June and I had to go deeper than the previous well, from originally 72 ft down to 160 feet. Now I can ignite my water too! The water quality is better, but there is an abundance of gas in the water.

@spawnflagger aha, I did not know that. That sucks, maybe you could tweak your own water degassing rig. Bubble it through a tank and store the gas that comes off, might be enough to light your stove