A Toxic Spew?

The sad truth is that, as long as we have fossil fuels, people are going to get at them. There's too much money in it. The sooner we use the crap up, the sooner we can move on to better energy sources.

My local newspaper will not print a word of this - our beautiful Ozark region of north central Arkansas is being overrun with these gas wells. Right now within 1200 feet of my back door a new well has been started within the past two weeks - the noise is unrelenting 24 hours a day, the smell as yet not constant is never lhe less out there, some of it smells like WD-40 is as close as I can describe it - I live upwind and uphill thru the woods and up a small creek where they have built a hugh pond that has stopped the flow of the creek and the wildlife has been invaded. This spring's turkey hatch that I see here in my woods yearly did not happen this year, the turkey have all left, the deer and fawns have no peace here, the foxes come right up to the back door - I have to keep my cats indoors now even though I have 25 acres of woods bought just for the privacy and peace and quite and style of life I looked for at retirement. Any day now I expect to be forced to allow a gas pipeline thru my place. It is not an option if the gas people want to do it, they will do it. I have a water well by choice, who knows what is going to happen to my drinking water, who cares? This is not Alaska, this is Arkansas.

Actually I work out of my home as well.

Are you inferring that because I'm an American I don't have a conscience? If you met me you'd probably find I'm one of the nicest guys you've ever met. You may think gas is evil, but I see it as fueling our prosperity. I see CAPSLOCK as evil, but you won't see me imposing my will on you or telling you that I know best.

If it weren???t for diseases??? there would be no need for penicillin ???drillingoillover?????? with that being said I agree with ragtopdodge, it???s time to grow up and move from nuclear and oil/gas fuels and close this page in the history books, we have destroyed enough natural resources in the name of energy, this country has the opportunity to set the standard and be the world leader in new energy resources and not be held hostage economically and productivity over oil/gas availability.

I feel physically sick, reading this article. The things Corporations (who in the end, are just PEOPLE) do! The ARROGANCE of it all! And the corruption and/or apathy of our leaders who ALLOW all this this. It's like the world is run by some underground evil economy. Axis of Evil? Look to our boardrooms!
How it ever became OK for some company to pump millions of gallons of chemicals into the planet without any oversight to speak of (or at ALL, to any thinking person) is beyond me. Just because you own a peice of property does not mean (or SHOULD not mean) that you have the right to pump chemicals underneath it. I love the comment of the Oil-villian that said legislating disclosure of the chemicals used is like asking Coke for it's cola receipe. Does he even believe that himself? Do these guys ever do ANYTHING other than exploit and lie?
We can not trust our Energy providers, they are slowing killing us and making a fortune doing it. We can not trust our leadership that panders to them at the public's expense. The only way to kill this infection is to STOP buying their product. They won't stop until we are all living in a cesspool and have sprouted a third eye.
I'm riding my bike from now on. I can not take this crap any longer.

Such stupid ignorant comments here. Why not just keep using whale blubber and oil? Sheet folks, it's the 21st century; why can't we look at alternatives intead of just hunting for whales? Oil/gas is so 20th century.

This highlights even more Obama's failure to stand up for what's right about drilling for oil. He chided Hillary for her gas tax pandering then turns right around and does the same. Shame on Obama. I am so disappointed he and the democrat party as a whole is wavering on this issue.

it is actually called fracing. The frac fluid is pumped into wells that are typically nine thousand to twenty five thousand feet deep which is way beyond any water wells. The ground water is also isolated behind steel pipe with a cement slurry to help isolate the ground water. Fracing fluid has been in use for decades, I wonder if these same people having problems with it are the same sort of people that would sign Penn and Tellers petition to ban the chemical make up of water. The best advice is to if you don't want oil and gas in your back yard is to quit using anything that involves the use of oil. Of course that would only be the air you breathe and water out of a creek or lake and we all know what that means girardia

This is small change compared to the ubiquitous lead contamination, all because the Big Oil had got a free pass to produce leaded gas for decades, just to make that extra fistful of dollars.

If are goverment had not killed all the programs back in the 70's with the mad oil shaft. We wouldn't be in the same sinking boat again.
But no the big oil company that run are country with the lackiees we have no brain an put then back in office time and time again . Were just f--king are selves time and time again. If I could only read what I'm typing would help.

This country is screwed but haven't felt the shaft yet.

If owr goverment had not killed all the programs after the oil madness in the 70's we wouldn't be in this BLACK HOLE were in now... Now will the again screw us and let big oil give us the shaft all over agai. U BET.

They want the big $$$$ to libe their kid collage and to HELL with us. The Take all the vacations ect on our backs. So vote them back into office and bend over spread you cheeks you'll get the un crease shafe again STUPID.

We as citizens of this finest country on earth need to ask ourselves just how much are we willing to sacrifice for cheap fuel??? So it's okay to dump 100,000's of gallons of pollutants into the earth just because they are below the drinking water tables?? How insane is that?? Wake up America - these companies are going to continue to do this as long as you demand cheap sources of fuel and are willing to sacrifice your children's and grandchildren's future for it.................................................

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I drive a toyota and it gets pretty good mileage, but I drive a whole lot less these days. Yes, we are all responsible! And we could force them out of business by turning out the lights, and doing a lot of things differently! Gas consumption is already down. Way down! Oil prices did drop. We could cut them off at the pump, by simply staying at the house when we didn't have to drive. Most of what they are drilling for is gas, right now, for power plants. We should just turn out the lights in the cities at night and it would make it so unprofitable to drill(it is very expensive) that they would just go out of business. We could save the planet, people, just by being TRULY CONSERVATIVE. We don't need all this crap we think we have to have. It's just a bunch of junk.