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What the Frack?

high pressure enemas
millions of gallons
crude solution fracking-fluid
25 to 75 percent resurfaces waste-water deluge

clastic fractures giving rise to
subterranean chemical carcinogens
fissile shale releases methane into
underground drinking water supply

Pavillion, Wyoming 2010,

EPA investigation finds 39
rural ground water wells
fresh drinking water contaminated

benzene and methane
fracking fluid additive
2-butoexythanol phosphate

recommending residents
avoid their tap

Cabot Oil and Gas
three spills at one well
within a week in Dimmock Penn

8,420 gallons leaked
wetland spills kill local fish
Cabot fined $240,000 plus

to transport safe water
the affected homeowners
more than $10 million in costs

EnCana Oil and Gas
faulty well casings allow
methane to migrate through
natural faults into Colorado water supplies

75-foot tall geyser of gas
and drilling fluid
chloride, sodium,
barium and strontium,
hydrochloric acid

air toxin smog formation
benzene delivering funereal flowers
death's frankincense to the marrow

nauseous ride of hexane highs
leading long term
nervous system failure
atrophy of skeletal muscle

high levels of radiation
wastewater Radium 226
sent to public sewage
plants not equipped to
treat NORM

bromides react with
water treatment disinfectants
to form brominated trihalomethanes
difficult and costly to remove
from the water supply
cancer and birth defects
deadly cost to human body

horizontal drilling
hydraulic fracturing
undermining air-water safety
public health

earthquakes escalate
homes crack
lands sink
waste water wells
further threaten local residents
beyond economic loss
and property damage

wells fill foul pockets
squeezing every tight oil penny
unconventional advanced fracking
and horizontal drilling
targets to extract
shale oil and natural gas
from impermeable shale
coalbeds, tight sandstone and
siltstone formations

hazardous emissions
heavy-duty development
generator compressor exhaust
air pollutants
fugitive methane
negating clean-burning shale benefits
methanol, formaldehyde and carbon disulphide
ground-level ozone
airborne neurotoxin
smog mirage
economic erosion

private
state-owned
oil and gas
global pioneers
poised to take
nightmare
International
partnering
high-volume
capital Shares
U.S. spreads shale
development secrets

envision
environmentally friendly
low-carbon future engines
clean-burning renewable
energy resources
beyond oil and coal
fossil fuel combustion
greenhouse gas emissions
air and water free of
Agricultural contamination

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