MooPig GREEN :: Energy Source Developments -- "Fracking"

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Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 2011 | Bryan TX

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The Whole Fracking Enchilada | Sandra Steingraber | Orion Magazine: EXCERPT  |  " ... "But high-volume slick water hydrofracturing of shale gas—fracking—is way bigger than PVC and synthetic fertilizer. In fact, it makes them both cheaply available. Fracking is linked to every part of the environmental crisis—from radiation exposure to habitat loss—and contravenes every principle of environmental thinking."

" ... HERE, THEN, are the environmental precepts violated by hydrofracking: 1) Environmental degradation of the commons should be factored into the price structure of the product (full-cost accounting), whose true carbon footprint—inclusive of all those diesel truck trips, blowouts, and methane leaks—requires calculation (life-cycle analysis). 2) Benefit of the doubt goes to public health, not the things that threaten it, especially in situations where catastrophic harm—aquifer contamination with carcinogens—is unremediable (the Precautionary Principle). 3) There is no away.

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" ... And nowhere in the U.S. is fracking proceeding more manically than Appalachia, which is underlain by the formation called the Marcellus Shale, otherwise referred to by the Intelligent Investor Report as “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” and by the Toronto Globe and Mail as a “prolific monster” with the potential to “rearrange the continent’s energy flow.” (STEINGRABER, Sandra. September/October 2010 issue of Orion magazine. HERE ) ... "

_______________Reference
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5839/
http://www.propane.pro/category/fracking/
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/11/17/congressional-panel-eyes-fracking-wastewater-rules/
http://www.propane.pro/fracking/lawmakers-call-disclosure-fracking-liquids-1101/

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