<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b>This is a major ALERT.</b> 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. </div><div><a href="http://sierraactivist.org/2010/10/19/sierra-clubs-fracking-regulatory-action-center-frac-is-now-online/">http://sierraactivist.org/2010/10/19/sierra-clubs-fracking-regulatory-action-center-frac-is-now-online/</a> or <a href="http://frack.mixplex.com/content/hydro-fracking-resource-and-action-center">http://frack.mixplex.com/content/hydro-fracking-resource-and-action-center</a> </div><div>or (in Canada) <a href="http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/fracking/index.html">http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/fracking/index.html</a></div><div><br></div>In the movie "Gasland", <a href="http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/gasland.htm">http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/gasland.htm</a> (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. <div><br></div><div>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)!!! </div><div><br></div><div>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)!<div><br></div><div><a href="http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/09/hydro-fracing-natural-gas-reservoirs-water-quantity-and-quality-problems.html">http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/09/hydro-fracing-natural-gas-reservoirs-water-quantity-and-quality-problems.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.straight.com/article-282210/vancouver/lucrative-dirty-secret">http://www.straight.com/article-282210/vancouver/lucrative-dirty-secret</a></div><div><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/food-pennsylvania-cattle-quarantined-from-gas-fracking-contamination/">http://www.grist.org/article/food-pennsylvania-cattle-quarantined-from-gas-fracking-contamination/</a></div><div><a href="http://online.nwf.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16069">http://online.nwf.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16069</a> (only temporary!)</div><div><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/pittsburgh-bans-natural-gas-drilling-over-fracking-threat">http://www.desmogblog.com/pittsburgh-bans-natural-gas-drilling-over-fracking-threat</a></div><div><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2010-08-23-fracking-natural-gas_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2010-08-23-fracking-natural-gas_N.htm</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/08/nbvotes-hydrofracking-brad-walters-1001.html">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/08/nbvotes-hydrofracking-brad-walters-1001.html</a></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing</a></div><div><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shale-gas-and-hydraulic-fracturing">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shale-gas-and-hydraulic-fracturing</a></div><div><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fracking-to-free-natural-gas-10-02-28">http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fracking-to-free-natural-gas-10-02-28</a></div><div><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/06/fracking-in-pennsylvania-201006">http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/06/fracking-in-pennsylvania-201006</a></div><div><a href="http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/frack-attack">http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/frack-attack</a></div><div><a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/natural-gas-fracking-threatens-drinking-water-video/">http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/natural-gas-fracking-threatens-drinking-water-video/</a></div><div><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/2010/12/01/actor-mark-ruffalo-on-terror-watch-list/">http://blastmagazine.com/2010/12/01/actor-mark-ruffalo-on-terror-watch-list/</a> ("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.")</div><div><a href="http://www.ewg.org/press-release/Fracking-for-Natural-Gas-Oil-May-Have-Broken-the-Law">http://www.ewg.org/press-release/Fracking-for-Natural-Gas-Oil-May-Have-Broken-the-Law</a></div><div><a href="http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/07/no-fracking-way-ban-hydraulic-fracturing-canada">http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/07/no-fracking-way-ban-hydraulic-fracturing-canada</a></div><div><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/40800/">http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/40800/</a> (<b>Fracking Future Hinges on Democratic Citizen Action)</b></div></div></body></html>