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Dory Hippauf this is my theory and I’m sticking to it….

1. horizontal fracking uses “SLICKWATER” which is a chemical cocktail to make the water slicker, i.e. more frictionless.

2. Horizontal fracking also uses sand to “prop” open the shale after blowing it into tiny pieces which allows the gas to escape and with the chemical cocktail slicking things up – the gazillion of teeny-tiny grains of sand begin to act like greased ball bearings.

3. ‘solid impermeable rock’ is a relative term. rock and layers have natural fractures/cracks.

4. there is a natural opposing and equal pressures which keep rock in place. If one side weakens, the other side will overpower it with more pressure and you have movement – i.e. shaking/quakes.

5. add a slippery substance into the fractures and you reduce friction (i.e. pressure) and one or the other side is going to slip/slide producing a quake.

but of course the gassers say there’s no connection……

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Frack is Wack!

Posted: 11/06/2011 in Water

Subject: Don’t Drill 20,000 shale gas wells in the Delaware River Basin!

Body:
Dear friends,
If you are unaware of the threat to the Delaware River watershed from shale gas drilling/hydraulic fracturing, PLEASE, i URGE you to go to this site and watch a video by Josh Fox, the filmmaker of GASLAND:
http://savethedelaware.wordpress.com/
If you are already familiar with this situation, please proceed below to the petition links. The need is urgent for 15.6 million people who depend on the Delaware watershed, the cleanest, largest, unfiltered, free-flowing river basin in the WORLD!!!!
Below is the *official* petition of the Delaware Riverkeeper; it is ABSOLUTELY crucial to garner 10s of 1000s of signatures before November 18th, since we are representing not only the large, major population centers of New York City and Philadelphia at risk, but also many more people who drink from the Delaware watershed. For those of you on Facebook, there is an automatic helpful Facebook share feature on the left side, with limited shares per day. It takes about two short minutes to use up your daily allotted shares, and makes makes promotion a SNAP!
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-pa-keep-drilling-and-fracking-out-of-the-delaware-river-basin
Please also take a moment and add your support to the petition promoted by Food & Water Watch, the only national organization which came out immediately for a full BAN on hydraulic fracturing, and works tirelessly on this front!
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8243
The last one is a SignOn.org petition written by local activist Timothy Devaney, and it is GREAT because it points out that this kind of drilling is a violation of our civil and Constitutional rights…the text is thoroughly impressive!
http://signon.org/sign/ban-fracking-in-the-delaware?source=c.url&r_by=152867
If you take a few more minutes, PLEASE forward this entire e-mail to everyone in your address book who cares about clean water, who drinks from the Delaware, or who loves someone who DOES! Please be courteous and protect the privacy of the people you e-mail by sending the e-mail to YOURSELF, and putting those you are e-mailing in the BCC: section of the address! THANKS!!!

Sincerely yours,
[your name]
P.S. Here is a link to take further action: http://www.occupydrbc.org/
Written and submitted by Julie A. Edgar of Berks Gas Truth
a terrific poster—->> i’m a little jealous, cuz i always use this phrase, but i guess i’m not the only one! i need to make one like this for upcoming protests!! 🙂

Don’t Frack Me Bro!

Posted: 10/23/2011 in Water

Save The Delaware!

Posted: 10/23/2011 in Water

Here are a few easy comebacks for your next argument. They cover everything from the supposed “hypocrisy” of demonstrators who buy cardboard (really!) to snarky comments about scruffy-looking anticapitalists with beards.

1. They say “Oh, look. The demonstrators buy stuff from corporations!” You say “Whaddya expect? Corporate lackeys in government have forced everybody else out of business!”

I don’t know who came up with this lame picture, but it’s making the rounds on Wall Street – and with all the other Americans co-opted by its propaganda:

Hey, bankers! Is that the best you’ve got? Really? Because this picture is so lame that it actually gave us several of our talking points. We’ll start with this one:

Corporations get generous tax breaks for not hiring people and shipping jobs overseas instead. They make money from those free trade agreements pushed through by their functionaries in the government. And Wall Street’s making billions for not lending to smaller businesses that might compete with some of those mega-corporations.

Now you’re calling the demonstrators hypocrites for buying stuff from corporations. Who else are they going to buy it from? Everyone else was driven out of business!

The Tiny Dot!

Posted: 10/12/2011 in Water

I Love Tap Water!

Posted: 10/11/2011 in Water

Tap vs. Bottled Again!

Posted: 10/11/2011 in Water

The Electric Vehicle Story from Justin Adkinson Productions on Vimeo.

If You Were KIng?

Posted: 10/11/2011 in Water

Fix the systems of water usage!

Posted: 10/10/2011 in Water

Climate policies do work!!!

Posted: 10/10/2011 in Water
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You have Got to be Kidding!

Well, again it’s money for fossil fuel that we are supposed to have ALREADY enacted in the clean air act which we as a country can’t seem to achieve. H,mmm how about we get rid of bottled water that consumes 180,000 barrels of oil? How about we get rid of the equipment blowing off the 470 mountain tops in the Appalachians? Oh yeah we need more fossil fuel! What will it take the price of water to exceed gasoline? Water is Life! Oil is a choice, gas is a choice, plastic w/ BPA that no one at the FDA wants to talk about is a choice. So do we keep on with our bad choices and live in denial? I am sure your lobbyists will not like it, we are at the tail end of the Appalachians in Ga. ya know! Will you allow Fracking in your county! I won’t, I will suffocate them with protesters, email, blogs, petitions, emails, and media. I think you need to step back and look at the whole picture. We won’t need any fossil fuel for our Japanese cars. Don’t get me
wrong, I’m from Detroit. I have many friends who have to work there. Why do we not have the emissions under control? Well, there is the money! Do you even know how much drinkable water is left on the entire planet? 1%, That’s right 1%! all the rest is poisoned or salt. How much oil is there for us to make money on! Way more than there is water at this point. Do we have to ruin everything that we came here for in the first place, Clean air, water, agriculture, RIGHTS, security. 30 % of most municipal water is for Turf grass! The rest is sucked up by us wasting it and Nestle’, Coke, and Pepsi stealing it. Do you know where Fiji water comes from? Neither does the VP of Pepsi! This is National drinkable Water week! Tap water is safer than bottled by far, check for yourself. I tell you what I will buy you a copy of Gasland! Then tell me how important it is TO US THE PUBLIC, not the lobbyist controlled government. We are the ones who put you there, we can
take you out! Check FB group No Fracking Way! these huge amounts of people are voters against Fracking. The fracking water never returns to the surface except with formaldehyde and benzene. Want a glass! Plastic, the biggest petroleum waste besides cars. Let me see how big are we going to allow the north atlantic gyre to get before we go back to glass! TProbably until it’s causing a problen with the tanker propellors! You need to get some new eyes and look around! We are all tired of political maneuvering this isn’t a chess game it’s peoples lives and well being. Oh Medicaid is killing us on costs. Take all the poisons away maybe we’ll get better! Here I am volunteering my time this week to my son’s class to tell them about water conservation, and your concerned about money for fossil fuel that causes problems on every level. So, What do I tell them never mind go buy fossil fuel stocks and think only of yourself! As the former president of the Chef
assoc. and Chef of the year, I am sure I can rustle up a few thousand more people who are tired of lobbyist controlled Government!

Open your new eyes Mr. Chambliss we are watching, always watching

________________________________
From: “saxby_chambliss@chambliss.senate.gov”
To: chefonfire911@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:27 PM
Subject: Responding to your message

Email

Dear Mr.
Morrison :

Thank
you for contacting me regarding hydraulic fracturing. I appreciate
hearing from you.

Hydraulic
fracturing is a process that involves injecting water and other substances at high pressure into a well
in order to break up rock formations and extract natural resources to increase the yields from natural
gas wells. Currently, hydraulic fracturing is exempt from regulations imposed under the “Safe Drinking
Water Act of 2005” ( P.L. 109-58)
to protect underground sources of drinking water.

S. 587 ,
the “Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals ( FRAC )
Act,” was introduced on March 15, 2011, and referred to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works. If passed, t his bill would re voke the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in P.L. 109-58 and required the disclosure of any chemicals used in this process.

The
quality and safety of our drinking water is important to me, as well as our nation’s ability to produce
oil and natural gas. The United States cannot
afford to continue sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year to foreign countries in order to
meet our energy needs. We should continue to safeguard our
drinking water while we appropriately increase the domestic oil and natural gas development or production.
Should S. 587 come before the Senate for consideration ,
I will keep your thoughts in mind.

If
you would like to receive timely email alerts regarding the latest congressional actions and my weekly
e-newsletter, please sign up via my web site at: http://www.chambliss.senate.gov . Please
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