Fracting for Gas (...referring to the film Gasland)

Thought you may be interested in this article:

"There are lots of ... naturally causing effects that occur," says Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation, a think tank in Pennsylvania – where much of the film was shot. "It's really no surprise. We find that 40 percent of the wells in Pennsylvania have some sort of naturally occurring methane gas and other types of things."

"Gas can migrate ... from poor drilling into people's private water wells. ... We have had gas move from poorly done gas drilling through the ground and reach people's water wells. So there is a need for oversight ... gas does have some impacts. It is not perfectly clean. But compared to coal and oil, which are more dirty fossil fuels, natural gas can be produced and consumed in a manner that is cleaner than coal."

Filmmaker Josh Fox concedes the states concluded that the fire wasn't caused by fracking, but he says the government regulators collude with industry, or don't use good science. His movie portrays Hanger as an indifferent bureaucrat. Hanger says the movie is just inaccurate. "Josh Fox has a mission. ... He is trying to shut down the gas–drilling industry."

Frankly, I'm skeptical of all of them: lefty movie makers who smear companies, companies with economic interests at stake and the regulators, who are often cozy with industry and lack essential knowledge. The surest environmental protectors are property rights – and courts that assign liability to polluters.

But hydraulic fracturing is a wonderful thing. It's not new. Companies have done it for 60 years, but now they've found ways to get even more gas out of the ground. That's the reason gas is getting cheaper, and panicky politicians no longer rant about America "running out of fuel."

Natural gas is not risk-free, but no energy source is. Perfect is not one of the choices.


Read more: The truth about 'fracking' http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=299889#ixzz1QUcSFdke

PS I have found that with EVERY new innovation come the detractors who would like life to go on
as is forever, and if a civilization let them rule their way, Electricity would still be a thing too dangerous
to have in people's homes. Edison himself even thought that. Just think about new sources of energy, and I feel if we are going to listen to the downside, we would want to counteract that with the good side and draw your own conclusions with good researched reasons for them. Personally, I will not let others negativity and slanted views influence my mentality. I've been given a brain that can decide for itself...it's like the scale that Lady Justice holds in representing the U.S. Courts. Almost everything has a down side. It is up to us to use our mental aptitudes to weigh the truth... on BOTH sides, and come up
with our OWN decisions on what to support, and what to rule against.