by Bumbalawski » Sep 28, 2012 12:40 pm
I am very next to the latest fracking battleground area, Maryland. 4 miles to be exact. I have done my research, both pro and con. The bottom line, casings do fail. Water sources get contaminated. Infrastructures such as roads get "beat to a pulp" while the tax payer foots the bill. Things such as fault lines are ignored. No permenant jobs, just temporary ones. Drill crews are "rovers", not locals. And the bulk of the natural gas, when the pipelines are completed, will go to China. First shipment to China just left our ports. So much for "patriotic oil men". "Country people" will not have natural gas piped to there home, only the city dwellers will. The oil and gas men did their best to bury the documentary "Gasland". Now, how are they going to bury a famous named actor and his film, Promised Land? I am not against natural gas drilling. I am against the method of which it done.
And how long before a fracked well leaks methane into a neighboring cave? If we were back in the "carbide light days", we would find out pretty quickly.
Donnie Carns
Bedford County
Beans Cove Pa.