Quote Originally Posted by eastbaygordo
We're wrecking the water supply in natural gas country with the new "fracturing" technology that pumps poison into the ground to break up rock to allow more natural gas to be extracted and it is destroying the aquifers the east coast and mountain west state residents use for drinking water.

And of course we are seeing what BP is doing in the Gulf of Mexico. BP said they had the technology to retrieve 10X times the current spill in documents asking for a waiver of environmental review. We can see they lied.
Fracking is horrible. It is unbelievable what these companies are doing and that it was exempted from EPA regulation. It's not hard to guess which administration allowed that to happen. There is a documentary being released this month called Gasland by Josh Fox (unfortunate last name for someone in the media business, eh?) which will air on HBO on June 21st. You can read a Terry Gross interview with him here which provides a decent primer on what fracking is and why it is so harmful.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104565793]And here is another article on fracking that is worth reading.[URL]

The BP thing is just an abomination. And remember, this thing is truly just a leak. If they screw it up we could be faced with a gusher. Something that would be far far more catastrophic. We should put that company into receivership until the oil spill has been cleaned up and paid for including significant and real compensation for the millions of people who have lost their livelihoods plus penalties. Once that's done the shareholders can have the company back. It is ridiculous to think that BP will not cut corners at every turn. If they didn't they could be sued by there shareholders! How is it that this doesn't bring people into the streets? I'm so POed by this thing. It has generated an anger in me that is some how personal. It's like an attacked on our country.