This is a horrifying practice.

The Fracking Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHQu3SeUwUI

pull my head out of the sand...this is the first time I have ever heard of fracking....

I heard something briefly on the news with in the last six months,but I didn't know that this was going on. BF

From just the local knowledge I have, someone else may know better.

There are pockets of gas from prehistoric ages, kidda like the coal belts. In the Northeast, the area I know, they are buying up, or "renting" land making farmers and folks pretty rich on these leases.
They drill into the pockets, right through the water levels, and using the water to cool the drills.

In our area, the wells and water has been undermined to the point if people light a match under or near the water facet it will turn into flames.

The landscaping is dug up, roads destroyed from the heavy trucks. A few moths ago a huge truck going too fast in the rurual areas failed to drive at safe speeds and ran into a woman killing her.

In northeast PA we had anthricite coal mines. Many of the men were digging in shafts they shore up with beams between the "veins" of coal and shale. As they go across the veins not down through them they pull it out. What ende up happening was the stability, methane gas, and greed with the owners.

In our town, they kept going, getting too close to the Susquehanna River. The pressure inward burst through the mining in the 60's and closed the coal mining in our area...
Then natural gas took over for heating homes and demand was down.

Now the fracking is taking out of the earth in the same way. I can't help but feel if large amounts of this gas is removed, WHAT is holding us together, and is that why all the odd earthquakes in previous unaffected areas?
Thanks for asking,
di

Wilkes barre Times Leader (Assoc Press)

Gas pipeline firm in Pa. pulls utility application
MARC LEVY,Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The company that's building a 30-mile pipeline to transport natural gas from northern Pennsylvania wells says it's no longer seeking public utility status, which would have been a step toward taking private property without an owner's approval.
The chairman of Laser Northeast Gathering said Monday the company's business model has changed.

Laser's application to state utility regulators was the first to coincide with Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale gas-drilling boom, although other applications are pending.

Public utilities have the ability to go to court to seek eminent domain on private property. But Laser says it's now planning to serve a limited number of customers.

Laser was forced to halt construction temporarily on its $55 million pipeline into New York state recently after crews spilled drilling mud into a pristine stream.

Read more: http://www.timesleader.com/news/Gas-...#ixzz1XnVfv8EX

Dear Di,

Yes. That is consistent with my understanding.

Here a picture of one area effected: The Marcellus Shale



Most likely the fracking did not cause the recent earthquake in Virginia but fracking has probably caused smaller earthquakes. If fracking were to occur on a fault line, then all bets are off.


The federal and state governments seem to be supporting the energy companies so far -- with low taxes and low regulations.

M

Mari,
Hughsville is where I was working today for insurance claims. Actually non flood related. Those claims are just coming in. This was a vehicle from last Thursday when the weather turned bad.

The map coincides with the Coal belts too, anthricite in the east and marcelus (sp) in the west and southern.

I had to detour two times to other roads. Major highways were affected too.
This is a small village as I was driving up this afternoon called Sonestown, there were homes gone, garages, this street was blocked off from driving down with a frontend loader just picking up everything for a dumpster.



This second one was a wonderful covered bridge we would pass. There was a tree through it, the lane was torn, and huge tree in the front pulled from the ground. Odd was a childrens plastic Easter egg near the roadway by the tree.

Dear Di,
I love your work with the camera . .. also the explanations with the pictures are marvelous.
M