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To: SilentZ who wrote (801258)	8/14/2014 12:58:31 AM
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>> We can empirically SEE tap water lighting on fire when that didn't happen before. You mean you've empirically seen videos of tap water lighting on fire. If you saw it in the bogus documentary "Gasland", that DID happen before. It did it long before anyone was fracking in the area. And the producers were confronted with that fact and have refused to acknowledge it was a lie. "In Gasland’s most poignant scene, a man in is filmed lighting his tap water on fire. The movie asserts that hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) has made this possible by contaminating nearby water sources. McAleer, however, discovered and proved residents in the man’s neighborhood have been able to light their water on fire since at least the 1930s, long before people began producing natural gas in the area. The gas mixing with groundwater appears to be a natural phenomenon." news.heartland.org >> It may be reasonable to say that some of the things said about fracking are exaggerated, but this stuff is undeniable. Hardly. Undeniable if you're a leftwing nutjob who is sucked in by any claim without having the gumption to know what is real and what is movie making. >> Would you say putting methane in the water supply is a good thing? Water can contain methane. There is nothing new about that. >> Earthquakes are occurring where they didn't before. While the jury is still out on the quakes, they're small and inconsequential. No one has ever been injured by one, no substantive property damage has been reported, and if there is any relationship it is between injections, NOT fracking. Injection wells have been used for a long time, and they continue to be the best means of dealing with toxic substances from slaughterhouse runoff to medical waste. Man-made earthquakes have been around for years, and some have killed people. But not the minor racket from injection wells. They simply do not matter so long as reasonable pressures are maintained.