Over the last few months I have posted three full blogs on hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking (See here, here, and here). Enviroblog has a very good post on more accidents related to hydrofracking. This is a very dangerous practice and as the natural gas and oil companies pursue this method more and more, we will continue to see an increase in harmful and disastrous effects. Natural gas is a clean fossil fuel, but our attempts to retrieve it from the Earth should not trade clean fuel for poisoned water, well fires, and earthquakes. We need to send the message to legislators to give the EPA more power and teeth in regulating this industry. As it stands now, these companies are almost free to do anything once they receive the permit to drill. Fracking takes us one step forward and then five backwards. We deserve better and so does the environment.
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