Pending Disaster
Excellent article. Well researched, written and informative. Quite revealing in fact.
Fracking threatens the water supply of over 100 million Americans. It is a pending disaster that will make the recent Gulf spill look like a hiccup. It could ruin the ground water across large swaths of America - a disaster that would be permanent on a human scale.
The frackers claim that their wells are much deeper than the aquifer, but all it takes is a problem with the casing going down into the well, or a problem with their catchment pond, their waste disposal methods, etc. for their poisons and natural gas to leach into the environment, and especially the water table. They can't promise that it won't happen, and it's almost guaranteed that it will, over and over again, as it already has happened many times.
It's just the proverbial "salt in the wound" that it's likely also just another scam, like the so-called "derivatives" of the recent housing market debacle.
