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Flammable Tap Water - Coming Soon to a Faucet Near You?

spud_meister said:
i got an amateur doco like that the other day, it was about how the UN is setting up a Socialist New World Order hand in hand with The Fabian Society, i spent most of it laughing.
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Yes. There are also a lot of crappy documentaries as well. That comes with the cheapening of the technology to make them.

Gasland - the docu of the thread - however is incredibly well-shot and presents very cogent arguments - and the "flaming water" is a very small part of it. Most of it involves scientific testing of corrupted drinking water and investigations into how this particular type of gas drilling became legal with little testing for environmental concern.
 
FilmFestGuy said:
Yeh. But if you'd lost your access to clean drinking water thanks to an irresponsible form of drilling for gas, you'd be unhappy, too. It doesn't have to be "flaming" to be corrupted, by the way.
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That can be true but I don't believe, for one minute, that this is a such a huge problem.
It's isolated at best.

Certainly unnecessary, to make a whole slanted movie out of it.
 
DrunkenAsparagus said:
Yeah, but it's not catching on fire as the sight says. It's turning a legitimate concern into, "OMG my kitchen's on fire! We're all gonna die right now!"
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Right - but that's one article that focuses on the most extreme example of what's happening. It ignores that there are a lot of people drinking corrupted water because the amounts of gas and chemicals in their water haven't reached the point of being malodorous.

8,000 People? E.P.A. Defers Hearing on Fracking - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

8,000 families showed up for public hearings with contaminated water.

That's not a small amount of people who are losing their drinking water AND having their property completely devalued as a result of fracking.

This is not a safe way of getting natural gas. It simply isn't. Everywhere it's been tried, nearby homes and farms have had their water contaminated. It's near 100% - and yet, we're told by the gas companies and the government that it's safe and that these contaminations are an "exception".

Maybe it's "sensationalism", but if it's accurate, can you over-argue?
 
FilmFestGuy said:
Right - but that's one article that focuses on the most extreme example of what's happening.
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"Flammable tap water" is in the headline.

FilmFestGuy said:
It ignores that there are a lot of people drinking corrupted water because the amounts of gas and chemicals in their water haven't reached the point of being malodorous.

8,000 People? E.P.A. Defers Hearing on Fracking - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

8,000 families showed up for public hearings with contaminated water.

That's not a small amount of people who are losing their drinking water AND having their property completely devalued as a result of fracking.

This is not a safe way of getting natural gas. It simply isn't. Everywhere it's been tried, nearby homes and farms have had their water contaminated. It's near 100% - and yet, we're told by the gas companies and the government that it's safe and that these contaminations are an "exception".

Maybe it's "sensationalism", but if it's accurate, can you over-argue?
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I've pointed out that contaminated drinking water is a valid concern in this thread several times. I'm talking about the article, and how it's trying to scare people into doing something.
 
FilmFestGuy said:
Right - but that's one article that focuses on the most extreme example of what's happening. It ignores that there are a lot of people drinking corrupted water because the amounts of gas and chemicals in their water haven't reached the point of being malodorous.

8,000 People? E.P.A. Defers Hearing on Fracking - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

8,000 families showed up for public hearings with contaminated water.

That's not a small amount of people who are losing their drinking water AND having their property completely devalued as a result of fracking.

This is not a safe way of getting natural gas. It simply isn't. Everywhere it's been tried, nearby homes and farms have had their water contaminated. It's near 100% - and yet, we're told by the gas companies and the government that it's safe and that these contaminations are an "exception".

Maybe it's "sensationalism", but if it's accurate, can you over-argue?
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You seem to be assuming that because 8,000 people showed up for this event, those people are all suffering from contamination of their water as a result of this. That seems to be without basis.
 
FilmFestGuy said:
As long as you promise me you don't watch Fox News, then I'll accept your statement.
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Not that I care if you accept my statement or not, I don't watch any news at all anymore. It's all so divisive to our country. The media(and I mean all media, TV, radio, print, internet) has turned everyone in this country against ourselves. It's disgusting to me, to watch how we interact with each other as though we are enemies of each other.
 
Water contamination is a serious problem, but I'm sorry, I can't take that article seriously.

It's those kinds of editorials that give the environmental movement a bad name.
 
highly highly highly doubtful that this could happen! water precessing plant would pick up on this before it reaches your house or wherever you are.
 
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