So you can set your water on fire, what's the big fracking deal?

[Steely Dan]

I get sick to my stomach whenever I see a commercial for fracking that calls it "safe and proven" I think it's neither. I wonder what caused the sharp increase in earthquakes since they've started fracking in that area? :waitasec:

 

[zwiebel]

Wow, this is a really controversial issue in the UK at the moment, but I hadn't heard a thing about firewater. This news is sure to stir things up even more over there.

'Natalie Hynde, convicted on Monday after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protestor, says more people should stand up against the risks'

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/natalie-hynde-ban-fracking-uk-protest-balcombe

 

[zwiebel]

This New Scientist article says fracking was responsible for two small earthquakes in Blackpool in the uk.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...aused-earthquakes-in-the-uk.html#.U0GvEcsaySM

This Daily Mail article says it wasn't. So take your pick.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-Blackpool-rocked-earthquakes-Irish-Sea.html

 

[Steely Dan]

Wow, this is a really controversial issue in the UK at the moment, but I hadn't heard a thing about firewater. This news is sure to stir things up even more over there.

'Natalie Hynde, convicted on Monday after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protestor, says more people should stand up against the risks'

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/natalie-hynde-ban-fracking-uk-protest-balcombe

In the video where the guy lights his water on fire the fracking company is shipping in fresh drinking water. I wonder how they shower though. I wouldn't want to bath in lighter fluid.

 

[passionflower]

Here in PA fracking is all around me, most of the beautiful farmlands are being cleared and ugly piping is being laid. Huge drills coming in and I fear for the water table. We can hear the small dynamite??? blasts ...........

 

[zwiebel]

In the video where the guy lights his water on fire the fracking company is shipping in fresh drinking water. I wonder how they shower though. I wouldn't want to bath in lighter fluid.

That UK protester who superglued herself to someone...

I'm not being funny - well, I suppose I am - but lighter fluid's probably one of the few things that can get superglue off fingers/flesh stuck together.

Not that I ever did anything that stoopid. Of course.

ETA: I haven't thoroughly read up on this subject, but I wouldn't want fracking near me. So I wouldn't want it near anyone else either.

 

[Steely Dan]

That UK protester who superglued herself to someone...

I'm not being funny - well, I suppose I am - but lighter fluid's probably one of the few things that can get superglue off fingers/flesh stuck together.

Not that I ever did anything that stoopid. Of course.

ETA: I haven't thoroughly read up on this subject, but I wouldn't want fracking near me. So I wouldn't want it near anyone else either.

BBM

It's amazing to me how few people actually have that level of empathy for others.

 

[zwiebel]

Caroline Lucas, a Green Party politician in Brighton, UK, has just been found not guilty of obstructing a highway during an anti-fracking protest.

Her right to make a peaceful protest was upheld, and there was much shouting, cheering and jubilation when she walked out of court a free woman (I heard it all on the radio, noisy bunch!).

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/17/caroline-lucas-cleared-anti-fracking-protest-charges