






[Image Source: Al Greenberg]




Source: Telegraph

Comments     Threshold


RE: Untrue
By Solandri on 5/28/2013 6:13:05 AM , Rating: 5
A) Chemicals used in fracking have been traced in surface water hundreds of miles away from the nearest fracking sites in the United States.


In all likelihood, the chemicals came from somewhere else, not the fracking.

B) Well established evidence (thousands of recorded instances) of "flammable water" in the United States has been found near fracking sites.

Ah yes, the infamous video from the movie. What they didn't tell you is that lots of wells have flammable water even without any fracking going on. In areas with large petroleum deposits underground, it's not unusual for well water to have a significant amount of dissolved methane (natural gas). When you pump the well water up, the pressure drop causes the methane to effervesce out, just like carbon dioxide bubbles out of soda and champagne when you open it. And as a result you can light it on fire.

I mean think about it. Where does natural sparkling water come from? In an underground aquifer, the water is under high pressure. A major component of volcanic gases is CO2. That CO2 encounters the water under pressure and dissolves in it. When the water is pumped up, the pressure drops and the CO2 effervesces out, and we call it sparkling water.

Well, another major component of volcanic gases is methane, and the exact same thing can happen. So why do you assume sparkling water is natural, while flammable water must be due to fracking? This is one of those cases where the correlation between A (fracking) and B (flammable water) isn't because A causes B or B causes A. Both A and B are caused by a third factor C (large amounts of petroleum and natural gas in the ground).

RE: Untrue
By Gondor on 5/28/13, Rating: 0
RE: Untrue

RE: Untrue
By Kiffberet on 5/28/13, Rating: 0
RE: Untrue

