Use the power of the internet to learn more about this problem. New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have discovered the Marcellus shale region to be one of the largest concentrations of natural gas in the world. The extraction process from this layer of sedimentary rock a mile below Earth’s surface DOES NOT HAVE TO BE SO HARMFUL.
The chosen method called “hydraulic fracturing,” developed by Halliburton Company, a witches’ brew of water, sand, formaldehyde, acids, petroleum compounds, herbicides and dozens of other SECRET ingredients is blasted into the earth at high pressure, fracturing the shale.
I thought we as an intelligent society had learned from our previous rape and pillaging of the environment. The conservation community does not oppose exploiting this rich resource, they’d just like it done right; they’d even settle for legally.
We are so lucky to have the Appalachian mountains to escape to once in awhile. There is nothing better than finding a native brown trout under a hemlock tree. Unfortunately this great treasure is in danger of disappearing again. READ MORE AND PASS ALONG TO YOUR NETWORK OF “FOLKS”
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