The Momentum Continues

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on September 4, 2009 at 2:30pm

Not if using what's Ours (Who's? Do I own any NAT GAS? Not unless I buy it. And it's expensive.)
may cause irreparable harm to North American Aquifers. Review:
Drill Waters Run foul

Let's call on Boone to stand up for a renewed: CLEAN WATER ACT. To the version before the BU$H Adm. created an exemption for NAT GAS Drilling. Or the current method known as: FRACKING. Do this in a Spirit of Trust, and concern for a truely Clean, Green Environment. Talk the talk. Walk the walk. Not just to promote a Cleaner form of Alt Energy, when it's convenient, and coincidental for profit. But out of real concern for the health of Our Nation.

Comment by Debbie Brockway on September 4, 2009 at 4:12pm

Keep on fighting; T. Boone Pickens, beacuse I'm for your army 100%. Thanks for all that you are doing !! Debbie Brockway Fond du Lac, WI. 54935-4515

Comment by glenn green on September 5, 2009 at 3:33am

YEA BOONE YOUR THE MAN.

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on September 5, 2009 at 7:16am

Overview: Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009

Background: How the Clean Water Act Was Weakened

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on September 5, 2009 at 7:27am

Casey, House Members Introduce Companion Bills To Protect Drinking Water from Natural Gas Fracking

FRAC Act
Fracturing Responsibility & Awareness of Chemicals Act

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to repeal a certain exemption for hydraulic fracturing, and for other purposes.

Bill # S.1215

I feel guilty now after sending an E supporting the NAT GAS Act w/o knowledge of this hazzard. Now we know, and need to: Take Action to right this wrong!

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on September 5, 2009 at 7:32am

BoB's Blog: Our Chunky Fracking Water -
Lotz info here!

Comment by Scott Baker on September 5, 2009 at 10:47am

I believe in T. Boone is doing & the math is inescapable, however...

"Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing. Scientists also found traces of other contaminants, including oil, gas or metals, in 11 of 39 wells tested there since March.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate [2] over the role of natural gas in America’s energy policy.

Abundant gas reserves are being aggressively developed in 31 states, including New York [3] and Pennsylvania [4]. Congress is mulling a bill [5] that aims to protect those water resources from hydraulic fracturing, the process in which fluids and sand are injected under high pressure to break up rock and release gas. But the industry says environmental regulation is unnecessary [6] because it is impossible for fracturing fluids to reach underground water supplies and no such case has ever been proven."

Check out the rest of the story at:
http://www.propublica.org/feature/epa-chemicals-found-in-wyo.-drinking-water-might-be-from-fracking-825

Fracking contamination is real, extensive (though we don't know how much, yet), and way under-reported in the MSM. We all want to get off the petrostate teat, but we can't sacrifice our health and the environment to do it.

Comment by Robert Schultz on September 7, 2009 at 2:46pm

I support the Pickens Plan, but there are limits to what we can allow to happen to our environment. Air and water are the most important natural resources we have, and they must be protected!

I've been working for the Pickens Plan for a year now, and the discussions this week are the first mention of "Fracking" that I have seen. I had heard about hydraulic fracture being used for oil extraction, but hadn't looked into the environmental effects.

Restore the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect our water. You can't drink Natural Gas or Oil, and when the AIR and WATER are polluted, the inhabitants of Planet Earth are "Fracked."

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