new study published tuesday in the scientific journal geology
links the magnitude five point six person wake up in oklahoma in november
two thousand and eleven
to natural gas drilling operations nearby that we're using an extraction
technique called it
bragging
of course it insead is coming
and of course frackie requires massive amounts of wastewater teen trekked into
underground reservoirs
and obviously studies basically saying that that's what that's what led to that
particular earthquake and if we continue to do for acting all around the united
states
uh... the the same thing will happen there will be more and more earthquakes
so we discuss tracking before
and what they do with these days drill deep underground through shale rock
to tap natural gas reservoirs
but in order to get the natural gas into the service what they have to do is pump
a mixture of toxic chemical cocktails underwater
or underground
at high speed and then the natural gas shoots up to the surface
so them biggest problem with this is that when u pumping chemicals into the
ground and has the natural gas shoot up
there's no way of getting the chemicals
out of the ground
now that wouldn't be so that a problem if it wasn't for the fact that the
chemicals
or very toxic
now furthermore maybe even that wouldn't be that big of a problem except that in
a lot of documented cases
the fact that the chemicals are stay in the ground
and seek their way through the ground and ended up in water supplies were
people
have done incredibly second in some cases had to move from their house
well then you have a tremendous problem on your hands
so here are just some of the chemicals that are used in what's called hydraulic
fracturing
or cracking
methanol
now methanol is found in antifreeze
it is uh... apace albeit in a vehicle fuel and vapors from it can cause our
irritation headache and fatigue and high enough doses that can be fatal
benzine is use which is listed as a hazardous air pollutant in the clean air
act and a contaminant in the safe drinking water act
uh... commonly found in gasoline it's also known as a human carcinogen
one-time exposure can cause cancer bone marrow failure or leukemia
short-term effects include dizziness weakness headache recklessness chest
constriction nausea and vomiting
and also as affects on the central nervous system
franking companies have injected eleven point four million gallons of benzine
into the ground between two thousand five and two thousand and nine
stay classy
leg is also used it's a carcinogen found in paint building construction materials
and roofing joints
hydrogen fluoride as use which is found in rust removers aluminum brighten yours
and heavy duty cleansers
it's listed as a hazardous air pollutant in the clear clean air act and it's
incredibly corrosive in poisonous
sulphuric acid is used which is of course an engine found in lead acid
batteries for chorus
corrosive tall body tissue
formaldehyde is use which is of course are carcinogen found in in bombing fluid
and by the way this isn't even close to all of the chemicals that are used in
frackie nc if i had to go through all of them
there's over six hundred
so i'd be here all that
now the problem arises
because
they have no way of getting of the chemicals out of the ground
using these uh...
well they have no way again chemical that aground period but they have no way
of getting the natural gas out a ground value chemicals
so just to give you guys some mom more hardcore a specific numbers here
according to pro public investigations
they found the for acting
is the comment thread in more than a thousand cases of water contamination
across seven states including dozens of cases a well failures in which the
concrete or steel meant to protect aquifers cracked under high pressure
uh... i've covered personal stories on the show before
where certain people
uh... report
having a cough that won't go away losing their hair getting incredibly sick
losing a tremendous amount of weight
and actually leaving their houses because
uh... their water is completely contaminated with these different
chemicals that are used
and cracking
so
the most uh... disastrous part about all this
frackie nc is being sent prominent
the clean water act
and you wanna know the name of the loophole it was given
the halliburton loophole
they're the ones that lobbied for the loophole back onto the george w_ bush
administration
and they got the loophole low-cost elitist under president barack obama
and it appears as if there's no end in sight
and they will still be allowed to crack despite the environmental damage and
despite the uh... substantive damage to the water supply
and to a great number of people