Greetings EEVBees:
--Pop is already on record as saying "The biggest difference I see, in fact, between fracking and nuclear power is nuclear guarantees you're going to have toxic waste to handle for the next 100,000 years, where fracking only has a 20% risk that you will permanently make the groundwater for miles around toxic."
--Is there anybody out there who actually beleives that Hydraulic Fracturing actually pollutes the the ground water "for miles around toxic" 1 in 5 times. I wonder if the NY Times knows about this. What a completely preposterous assertion.
--The CNN Video provided makes reference to the already widely discredited "documentary" Gasland, in order to get some of it accusations before the public. Gasland of course is famous for the "flaming faucet fraud" where a well that has had natural methane for decades is falsely presented as being the victim of "Fracking". So much for CNNs already damaged credibility. Remember, CNN is the one that had to retract an article about the use of Nerve Gas by the US in Vietnam, which was a complete fabrication. Then you have 60 Minutes of "Forged Bush Military Records" debacle, which resulted in the firing of Dan Rather. Lastly you have 60 Minutes Australia with its "Michael Moore" style documentary approach, complete with mood music to help you really get into the feeling of abject terror. This one also mentions and uses footage from the already discredited Gasland. Now generally I tend to think, that as a general matter, the Australians have more common sense still left, than Americans, but clearly some of the "News TV" is even more luridly nauseating, my condolences.
--Ask youself this. If many individual frack wells were each killing hundreds of birds per year, would they escape the attention of the authorities? Likewise if frack wells were polluting the ground water for miles around one fifth of the time, would it really escape the notice of the major media. Even 60 Minutes and CNN could probably not swallow that one.
"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds."
Michael Faraday 1791 1867
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Clear Ether