Confirmed: Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquakes

@genierae

Elegantly stated. As a chemically sensitive individual, I was forced to leave our family held ranch in Wyoming, and remove to another State when the frackers came barging in.

In addition to the round-the-clock noise, there are the accompanying floodlights, there is the constant (also round-the-clock ) 18 Wheeler traffic (back and forth) on very narrow dirt and gravel roads. So, welcome to noise pollution, light pollution and air pollution, and that is even before any drilling starts.

In addition, one can see the futility in refusing to allow drilling on *your* land when your neighbors are panting over the "oil money", and welcoming the drillers to *their* land. When drilling commences on the neighbor's land, you are forced to live in the same air, and to access the same water table that they do.

In my case, the oil boys decided to drill on the neighbor's land, but just across the dirt road from our house, such that I could sit up at night and read a book via the light from the drill rigs.

While I miss my family, I now frequently call them from my new location here in New Mexico. I will be here until the frackers catch up with us down here (they are fighting for permits even as I write).

Then, I am once again "on the run", but I have to say, that prairie, mountains, forest, or whatever, I have yet to find an environment not "under the extraction industry hammer".

My biggest concern is aquifer contamination. I live in a rural area also. Everyone gets their drinking water from wells, either individual or from tiny cooperatives serving ten or twenty users. Although gas wells are considerably deeper than water wells, it may be only a matter of time before before the fracking water begins to contaminate drinking water. Water, especially fracking water injected under enormous pressure, can travel great distances underground. Earthquakes, manmade or natural, could create vertical fissures speeding up the process.
Earthquakes are short-lived, individual events. Poisoned ground water lasts for millenia, and the ramifications are impossible to predict.

Pa here and our GOP refuses to drink the chemicals used.. how come? We have a community with their water blowing up like in west. Governor Corbett stopped the Fracking Companies from transporting water to Dimmock Pa but he isn't drinking the water.
These creeps really do not care about their kids or future of their own no less ours.

Planet earth has run out of patience with mankind and she is quite capable of ridding herself of us if she so decides. The warning signs are growing in severity, it's just a matter of time. I think that we will wake up before the tipping point is reached however. There's a new brisk wind blowing, rousing millions from their sleep, and they will not be denied.

@Glen
By unsophisticated I meant that these people are unsuspecting of more complex schemes, they think in basic terms of "I need money, and everyone else is doing it, so it must be okay". They want that money very much, and they are conditioned to accept superficial assurances from their governor, who is Republican, and their town newspaper, which is also Republican, that fracking is safe. They are not deep thinkers, for the most part, if they were, they wouldn't be selling out their precious land. They are unsophisticated , and there's no "maybe" about it.