I submitted this before and killed it after it went dead, which was probably a little hasty. It'll probably go dead again soon, so let if you don't want to watch it now, let it buffer in your browser for later viewing.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, February 4th, 2011 11:10am PST - promote requested by original submitter dystopianfuturetoday.

This is an incredibly important film. I'll be back to promote & repromote - everyone needs to watch this & understand the implications.
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Of course the two bills that were introduced in 2009 both died. So the companies that were doing this stuff are still doing it.

Seems like the companies should be on the hook for cleanup. No matter the cost. If the cleanup kills the companies then I guess this type of wells aren't profitable and they should stop.

It seems to me that artificially keeping energy prices down at the cost of people in the impact zone and the environment weakens our country.

I'm in and out of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission building in Casper about a few times every month, and all I see are businessman from the petroleum industry (including Encana fucks) bitching about not getting enough permits to drill. And I don't care how much the state increases the number of permits, it's fucking never enough. They view them as a goddamn birthright. Of course these guys drive there in their Hummers, so they probably each need a well just to fill their gas tanks. I even heard one of those assholes complaining that Nixon would never have signed the Clean Water Act if he knew all the regulations it was going to create. Makes you want to scream.

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I'd like to see this at least make it into the Top 15.

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Folks, take the time to watch this. It's very good.

If I'm already convinced and aware that the gas/oil industries are evil and are killing us all, is watching this going to benefit me?

>> ^direpickle:

If I'm already convinced and aware that the gas/oil industries are evil and are killing us all, is watching this going to benefit me?

have you ever seen tap water on fire before?

>> ^sepatown:

>> ^direpickle:
If I'm already convinced and aware that the gas/oil industries are evil and are killing us all, is watching this going to benefit me?

have you ever seen tap water on fire before?


Yeah, clips of that were making the rounds last year.

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I know this is all bullshit because T. Boone Pickens was on the Daily Show and he assured me that no water well has ever been contaminated by fracking. He wouldn't lie would he?

>> ^nanrod:

I know this is all bullshit because T. Boone Pickens was on the Daily Show and he assured me that no water well has ever been contaminated by fracking. He wouldn't lie would he?


And neither would Lee Fuller, executive director of Energy in Depth, who has told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a litany of errors in the anti-drilling film should render it ineligible for the Oscar for best documentary feature.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/01/01greenwire-ioil-and-gas-group-urges-oscar-judges-to-steer-99256.html

Besides, it is good that North Americans are once again getting a small taste of what many petro-states have have to endure over the decades to fuel a lifestyle of excess.

It's amazing how little power people have against these bastards. I think it will take a change in the way you elect your Government before any real changes happen.

>> ^ghark:

It's amazing how little power people have against these bastards. I think it will take a change in the way you elect your Government before any real changes happen.


The only way change will happen is civil unrest. People making trouble, not these text book love ins the hippies have. Blow some shit up, make them notice !@!! hOOOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! guns beer and ammo !

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^ghark:
It's amazing how little power people have against these bastards. I think it will take a change in the way you elect your Government before any real changes happen.

The only way change will happen is civil unrest. People making trouble, not these text book love ins the hippies have. Blow some shit up, make them notice !@!! hOOOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! guns beer and ammo !


Yea the thing that gets me is how smart these people like Dick Cheney are, they get laws changed in advance so they can't suffer any consequences, if something big does happen - civil unrest etc, the thing that will need to be fixed is all these laws protecting these guys.

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Looks like "Energy in Depth" is another bullshit oil industry front group.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_in_Depth

Energy in Depth (EID) is a pro-oil-and-gas drilling industry front group formed by the American Petroleum Institute, the Petroleum Association of America and dozens of additional industry organizations for the purpose of denouncing legislation proposed by Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette to regulate underground hydraulic fracturing fluids. Hydraulic fracturing of underground geological formations, commonly called "fracking," was invented by the Halliburton Company. It is done to increase the amounts of oil and gas that can be extracted from existing wells. [1]

Energy in Depth denounces DeGette's proposed fracking legislation as an “unnecessary financial burden on a single small-business industry, American oil and natural gas producers.” In June, 2009, Energy in Depth started a multimillion dollar lobbying and public relations campaign aimed at derailing public health legislation that would require the disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluids. In addition to a Web site, EID's campaign includes a Twitter feed, a Facebook group, a YouTube channel and an aggressive advertising campaign. [1]

Energy in Depth trumpets the economic contribution oil and gas drilling makes, and the numbers of people employed by the industry.

>> ^wagthedog1:

>> ^nanrod:
I know this is all bullshit because T. Boone Pickens was on the Daily Show and he assured me that no water well has ever been contaminated by fracking. He wouldn't lie would he?

And neither would Lee Fuller, executive director of Energy in Depth, who has told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a litany of errors in the anti-drilling film should render it ineligible for the Oscar for best documentary feature.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011
/02/01/01greenwire-ioil-and-gas-group-urges-oscar-judges-to-steer-99256.html
Besides, it is good that North Americans are once again getting a small taste of what many petro-states have have to endure over the decades to fuel a lifestyle of excess.

Where's Erin Brockovich when you need her!!! lol

I'm still pissed about last year's Oscar results. The cove was a great documentary but so was Food, Inc. And I wish they declared both documentaries winners. I mean c'mon, why must only one be the recipient?

certainly this film teaches us that we should just trust industry to regulate itself, and keep Big Government from interfering in people's lives, right?
right?

The bill to make fracing subject to the same regulations as everything else stalled in the first subcommittee and is as of now effectively dead.

Current members of that subcommittee: (Senate Environment and Public Works)

Chairman
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Ranking Member
Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]
Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Michael Crapo [R-ID]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

I've recently watched H2Oil describing the problems that have arisen from pillaging the Canadian tar sands (I say pillage because if the companies behaved responsibly then they would have demonstrated a fair "give and take" approach instead of taking with little thought given to the people and wildlife affected). Going to give this one a viewing later this evening, will be interesting to see if there are any corporate cross-overs.

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Serious voice is serious.

But really - these companies need to pay for any damage they cause. This is simple liability.

That said, natural gas really does make a lot of sense from an energy perspective, and fracking is how you get a lot of natural gas. If they can afford to pay people $100k for their gas rights, they can pay to fix a busted well.


Also, protip: Home Depot will test your well water for you, for free. Obviously, don't trust testing done by someone with an agenda.

Flip!

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Ok, I get that this is an important documentary, but 30 hours of promote time in 5 days is overkill. Enough already. Everyone that's interested in watching this has. Nearly 1800 views, and over 160 unique member views.

This is the kind of shit that just shows how evil and corrupt Republicans are.

And to all you stupid fucking conservatives, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE REGULATION.

You can take your free market that would destroy the fucking world and human race and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUCKING ASSES COLLECTIVELY.

And on the subject of promotes, keep it up! I just barely heard of this today, Feb. 16'th.

LOL "Foreign oils and TERRORISTS"

I have been reading a great deal of articles and watching several documentaries lately as part of my most recent part of a six-month personal quest to learn more about our political and societal system, and so far everything points to shit being so much more fucked up than anybody had ever even suggested to me. Right now I guess all I'm doing is trying to educate myself as best I can so I can figure out where to best focus my energy in helping enact positive change, but really we should just radically revolutionize (or rather, evolve) our entire system, for fuck's sake.

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How sneaky those corporate Darwinist's Monkey elites have become, Encana is a Canadian Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encana

If there is ever backlash and finger pointing done in Washington well they can blame foreign entities....or have a good case to exemption of accountability by their monkey lawyers that EnCana is not bind to the same standard as Halliburton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton would be in the United Sates...

Clever Monkeys washing their duty hands...sick



Clever but not very smart..... this is not the type of human values I was tough by my parents...

I even serve my country for those elites Darwinist Monkeys ..... sick

This is evil at its best and pursues of wealth , creed is evil and in today's Universities around the world the Darwinist theories are tough and those of swore to his theories will thrive to the top as monkey's foundations (darwinist ideologies) of evolution and survival of the fetus theories is implanted into human harts....

This is the fruits of ignorance and Inhuman ideologies where Maximizing Shareholders values trump brotherhoods......

No matter what citizen say, do or wish for.....darwinist SS elites have taken over the world to form a super elite club base on Monkey principle....

The world has lost it virtues of human kindness and dignity when JFK was assassinated....

Welcome to the jungle.....

Ex-Gate Keeper of the lost free world....

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