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The greatest threat to our water is fracking for natural gas
“Fracking Hell: The Untold Story”
Here is a shorter 17 minute documentary about homeowners’ and farmers’ experience with contamination from local ‘fracking’ operations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEB_Wwe-uBM
Peer-reviewed research showing contamination of aquifers and freshwater sources by ‘fracking’ for natural gas. http://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/avnervengosh/duke-study-on-shale-gas-and-fracking/
What is in Fracking fluid?
http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/whats-frack-water
In one out of every five completed hydraulic fracking shafts, the concrete which encases the fracking shafts are known to leak due to imperfect mix. This breakdown of the concrete casing acts as a conduit for toxic fracking fluid, methane, and toxic gases to escape into aquifers, wells, ponds, and rivers as it makes its way to the surface due to high underground pressure.
Over fifty years, the amount of casing breakdown and leakage rises to fifty percent of fracking shafts. With a million and a half fracturing sites in North America to date, the damage and contamination to surrounding land and aquifers has been horrendous.
The oil/gas industry is planning to frack another million sites in the next five years. Hundreds of thousands of wells and aquifers have already been contaminated…contamination which doesn’t go away.
In the US… farmland, homes of the wealthy, and entire towns have become worthless overnight because the water supply is contaminated from the hydraulic fracturing processes used to obtain natural gas.
This explains why the BC Liberal government is making changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve(so they can allow for hyrdraulic fracturing on farmland).
Do we really want to deny our children and grandchildren fresh water on our farms and property? Can we justify the short term, dollar-gain for the loss of our drinking water?
It is important to understand what ‘fracking’ is and why drilling for natural gas contaminates aquifers.
Another worthwhile documentary presentation is titled: ‘Tar Sands, Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNgiPkF0TY
Further references found here:
Contaminated Freshwater Systems caused by Fracking
http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/contaminated-freshwater-systems-caused-by-fracking.html
Peer-reviewed research shows contamination of aquifers and freshwater sources by ‘fracking’ for natural gas. http://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/avnervengosh/duke-study-on-shale-gas-and-fracking/