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
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poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
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