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Fracking

#1 Post by blowin »

Hi , I have only recently started looking into the controversy about this . Depending on who you believe it seems that it could have a bad impact on water pollution ie river and therefore estuary fish stocks .
This report is lengthy but you can get the gist of it by using the "page down" facility and skipping the detail . http://www.frackingresearch.org/report.pdf
Just wondered whether any of you guys are campaigning on the environmental / angling issues ?

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blowin wrote:Note to Mods - please feel free to delete this if you feel that SAI is not an appropriate forum for it .
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i read about fracking :( its not good,if Bush band it in America gas coming out of taps were your drinking water,they are talking of doing it up the north :( not good at all :evil: :evil:
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#4 Post by shane cummins »

you want to know all about fracking watch this documnetry
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gasland/

this will show you how it can effect everthing in it's path.
making water flammable :shock:
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shane cummins wrote:you want to know all about fracking watch this documnetry
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gasland/

this will show you how it can effect everthing in it's path.
making water flammable :shock:
I'm not so sure that film is all it seems.

http://www.cst.net/geoscience/oil-busin ... -from-film
The occurrence of methane in the coals of the Laramie Formation has been well documented in numerous publications by the Colorado Geological Survey, the United States Geological Survey, and the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists dating back more than 30 years. For example, a 1976 publication by the Colorado Division of Water Resources states that the aquifer contains “troublesome amounts of . . . methane.”
And the film maker
also dropped the bombshell that I had not been aware of that there were media reports of people lighting their water as far back as 1936. Again this was not included in Gasland because it was not "relevant".

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