[All] NG Fracking: A massive environmental disaster in the process of destroying rural North America & more

[Robert Milligan]

This is a major ALERT. All caring individuals need to be attentive to,  
learn about, and then collaboratively plan action against the ravages  
of natural gas fracking (hydraulic rock fracturing to release the gas  
using many toxic chemicals), e.g.
http://sierraactivist.org/2010/10/19/sierra-clubs-fracking-regulatory-action-center-frac-is-now-online/ 
  or http://frack.mixplex.com/content/hydro-fracking-resource-and-action-center
or (in Canada) http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/fracking/index.html

In the movie "Gasland", http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/gasland.htm   
(recently shown on TV) especially notice all the natural gas (which  
should ideally remain naturally sequestered along with oil & coal)  
that is escaping from the water and ground throughout the film.

Of course the key devil behind fracking, Dick Cheney of Haliburton  
fame, should be "thanked" for the great "success" of fracking as it  
destroys, human [& domestic animals & wildlife] health & livelihoods,  
watercourses & drinking water sources (from wells to vast watersheds,  
e.g. Hudson River [soon]). and pollutes our ground-level air &  
atmosphere with methane & with volatile fracting toxic unregulated  
chemicals (among the 600+ used mostly at once)!!!

This is a prime example of a powerful regulation-eliminating (thanks  
to Cheney) new type of business operating so as to do gross harm to  
the environment and society. Such a damaging NG extraction process  
must either be somehow miraculously transformed so as to have minimal  
bad effects or put out of commission around the World -- for the sake  
of Life on Earth (yes, it's that big a threat & maybe only a radically  
different means of extraction would be sufficiently safe, although  
perhaps any means of extraction of all that NG would be unsafe for  
Planetary Life)!

http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/09/hydro-fracing-natural-gas-reservoirs-water-quantity-and-quality-problems.html
http://www.straight.com/article-282210/vancouver/lucrative-dirty-secret
http://www.grist.org/article/food-pennsylvania-cattle-quarantined-from-gas-fracking-contamination/
http://online.nwf.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16069 (only  
temporary!)
http://www.desmogblog.com/pittsburgh-bans-natural-gas-drilling-over-fracking-threat
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2010-08-23-fracking-natural-gas_N.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/08/nbvotes-hydrofracking-brad-walters-1001.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shale-gas-and-hydraulic-fracturing
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fracking-to-free-natural-gas-10-02-28
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/06/fracking-in-pennsylvania-201006
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/frack-attack
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/natural-gas-fracking-threatens-drinking-water-video/
http://blastmagazine.com/2010/12/01/actor-mark-ruffalo-on-terror-watch-list/ 
  ("Actor Mark Ruffalo,  43,  has been placed on a terror watch list  
by U.S. officials [Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security] after  
supporting a new documentary ["Gasland"] about natural gas drilling.")
http://www.ewg.org/press-release/Fracking-for-Natural-Gas-Oil-May-Have-Broken-the-Law
http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/07/no-fracking-way-ban-hydraulic-fracturing-canada
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/40800/ (Fracking Future  
Hinges on Democratic Citizen Action)
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