US EPA Link Fracking with Water pollution

The Outside Agency

Bombshell Report Links Water Contamination To Fracking For The First Time

Read more: http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-link-water-contamination-to-fracking-for-first-time/single#republish#ixzz1g3CNsNM1

If the US federal authorities have found hydraulic fracturing contaminates the water supply, why do we need the EPA in Ireland to bother with a report?

Seems like a waste of money.

cosmicfart

why are u posting like a cylon?

danniemcq

i thought it was a battlestar gallactica story

in other news isn't this the same kinda extraction can make flames come from taps?

Biggins

nivekd wrote: »

Bombshell Report Links Water Contamination To Fracking For The First Time

Read more: http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-link-water-contamination-to-fracking-for-first-time/single#republish#ixzz1g3CNsNM1

If the US federal authorities have found hydraulic fracturing contaminates the water supply, why do we need the EPA in Ireland to bother with a report?

Seems like a waste of money.

Well for a start, would it be right to automatically trust foreign government reports?
* We don't know if their results were changed/pressurised to alteration by lobby groups or more direct influence?
* We don't know if they would be using the same testing equipment and how good its maintained and by who?
* We don't know who paid for their studies sometimes?
* We don't know how their conditions might differ from ours?
* We don't know the people that carried the tests out do we and how good they are - are their qualifications the same or better than ours doing same testing?

....There's loads of reasons sometimes.

The Outside Agency

Cylon hmm...

The Outside Agency

Biggins wrote: »

Well for a start, would it be right to automatically trust foreign government reports?
* We don't know if their results were changed/pressurised to alteration by lobby groups or more direct influence?
* We don't know who paid for their studies sometimes?
* We don't know how there conditions might differ from ours?
* We don't know the people that carried the tests out do we and how good they are - are their qualifications the same or better than ours doing same testing?

....There's loads of reasons sometimes.

Why not? What do they stand to gain by lying about it?
If they say it's safe and destroy their water supply, I'd be more concerned about the consequences of that than getting some gas or oil.
Water is more important.

Biggins

nivekd wrote: »

Why not? What do they stand to gain by lying about it?
If they say it's safe and destroy their water supply, I'd be more concerned about the consequences of that than getting some gas or oil.
Water is more important.

What would a company have to gain about lies in testing?

PROFIT!

One famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination

later12

Profit.

That's a DURTY word.

44leto

Biggins wrote: »

Well for a start, would it be right to automatically trust foreign government reports?
* We don't know if their results were changed/pressurised to alteration by lobby groups or more direct influence?
* We don't know if they would be using the same testing equipment and how good its maintained and by who?
* We don't know who paid for their studies sometimes?
* We don't know how their conditions might differ from ours?
* We don't know the people that carried the tests out do we and how good they are - are their qualifications the same or better than ours doing same testing?

....There's loads of reasons sometimes.

Ohhh I don't know, but if Fracking has occurred in a locality and you can ignite someone's water because of methane contaminating, you really don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to make a connection.

Its an exact science but the fracturing of rocks underground can never be, so if you do that you are rolling a dice. Ireland is a small country, no-way as big as the isolated american sites they have been fracking. But Ireland underground is one big water table.

I say a big NO to this type of energy extraction here.

Watch the documentary film Gasland.

Then find out they do it in Ireland.


Be scared and angry.

Biggins

44leto wrote: »

...I say a big NO to this type of energy extraction here.

Others more knowledgeable in this area, might be able to tell you if it goes on here.
I don't know myself and would be lying/bluffing if I said more on the subject of "Fracking" itself.

El Guapo!

I only came into this thread to see what fracking meant.....