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• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 5:00pm

  In reply to 19RANDY59.

  And here’s more evidence … the earth may heal itself in time, but how about the damage caused prior to that healing as it’s certainly not instantaneous…

  http://tinyurl.com/bocfj86

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 4:47pm

  In reply to selfmademan56.

  I think the mistakes that are made (many due to wanting to take shortcuts to increase profits) are what causes the ‘fear’ of fracking (and drilling as well). When one thinks about what fracking does at an amateur level, it sounds like huge pressure is being pumped into the earth which breaks open fissures releasing gas…. and this could also open fissures that would allow this gas to get in an contaminate water. One most likely has to understand geology well enough to know with proper safeguards this will not happen (I do not know geology in that manner, thus at first mention it sounded like it could be an issue, but after careful studying it seems the problems would happen only when not following proper procedures, thus the reason I state to make the penalties severe enough to ensure no one wants to take the chance at fast-tracking the system and risking a disaster).

  Global warming is similar in that unless you have all the data as well as knowledge of how our ecosystem works, you may well come to the wrong conclusion.

  What is so sad today is most people in the argument are arguing ‘their side’ based solely on their political associations and scientifically haven’t a clue as to what could/could not happen. More simply, people today are lying idiots who refuse to say, “I don’t know”. What a sad state to live in when one’s ego doesn’t allow those 3 words to be uttered.

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 4:38pm

  In reply to Blazen420.

  @ darthlawsuit

  I suspect you know flouride is poisonous to ingest. While it’s in very miniscule amounts in municipal drinking water, it’s still a poison that is being ingested (and you can even find “infant-friendly” bottled water in grocery stores now containing flouride that seems totally crazy!). I know that when I drink water, I tend to drink it … i.e. allow it to flow down my throat. I rarely swish it around my mouth and it touches very little, if any, of my teeth. Since flouride is ONLY effective at preventing tooth decay when topically applied, it makes no sense that they ever put it in drinking water.

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 4:27pm

  In reply to Nabuquduriuzhur.

  [This got posted in the wrong thread ... so re-posting here]

  “The more radioactive an element is, the faster it decays. An element that has a half-life of 10,000 years like that is pretty safe.”

  I do not know off the top of my head the half-life of specific nuclear waste, thus I used the statement, “what, 50,000 years”. If it’s 10,000, thats better. If it’s even 1000, great news, although not so great for people and animals alive during that 1000 years, wouldn’t you say?

  “They blocked every effort that could have been made for months, apparently wanting the spill
  to go on.”

  So, the administration blocked the spill … yes, that is bad, BUT, had the spill NOT HAPPENED in the first place, it would even have been better, wouldn’t you think?

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 4:16pm

  In reply to Nabuquduriuzhur.

  “Unlike you, I’ve worked in both engineering and endangered species work.”

  That’s actually a pretty stupid statement given that you do not know what I’ve worked in. It is correct, but until I just stated that, there is truly no way you could have known. Even if I stated everything wrong, which I did not, that is not proof I haven’t worked in those areas.

  That said,

  “You are the type that would stop logging on second growth to prevent fire, then whine when the fire happens and it destroys a nearby wilderness.”

  BZZZZT! You’re wrong again. Your egotistical attitude continues to betray you. I am all for good forest management and know all too well why forest fires start in many cases.

  “Or the type that claims that plastics somehow remain in seawater for years, despite rapidly breaking down under salt, sunlight, and sulphates.”

  And yet again, BZZZZT! You’re battin’ 1000 here.
  I do not know how long plastics remain in sea water. I _DO_ know, however, that it’s quite unsightly to see crap like disposed-of plastics floating around any body of water. I also know that medical waste being dumped into water is not good. I know that untreated sewage being pumped into water is not good. Of course, I don’t have degrees in engineering and have not worked in those areas… I just have common sense that so many who think we cannot pollute the earth do not.

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 4:11pm

  In reply to 19RANDY59.

  “Good luck in finding any nuclear material that is hazardous for 50,000 years. The more radioactive an element is, the faster it decays. An element that has a half-life of 10,000 years like that is pretty safe.”

  I do not know off the top of my head the half-life of specific nuclear waste, thus I used the statement, “what, 50,000 years”. If it’s 10,000, thats better. If it’s even 1000, great news, although not so great for people and animals alive during that 1000 years, wouldn’t you say?

  “They blocked every effort that could have been made for months, apparently wanting the spill
  to go on. If they’d allowed BP to stop the spill in a timely fashion, or used their own resources to stop the spill, what would have been the result?”

  So, the administration blocked the spill … yes, that is bad, BUT, had the spill NOT HAPPENED in the first place, it would even have been better, wouldn’t you think?

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 2:37pm

  In reply to huey6367.

  I would assume taking stupid shortcuts could be a cause for mistakes. If done CORRECT, there may be no harm, but we have too many instances of people choosing to take a shortcut to save bucks. As I have stated, make the penalty of that decision severe enough to include prison time if it harms the environment and/or people and I believe we’d see a lot less ‘accidents’ happening.

• Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

  May 17, 2013 at 2:33pm

  In reply to 19RANDY59.

  Congratulations… that is one of the most stupid comments on pollution I have ever seen!

  “The indisputable fact is that we, as humans, are not capable of polluting this earth. Everything we produce, including toxic waste, comes from materials on this earth. They will all assimilate back into the earth.”

  Certainly, over time the earth will assimulate whatever we place on it. In the case of nuclear contamination, it’s what, 50,000 years? How about all the people and animals that get sick and/or die in the meantime? They don’t count?

  You truly have to be either of an idiot intellect, or willfully blind to think man cannot pollute the earth. Oil spills kill animals. Factory and farm untreated runoff into lakes and streams sickens (and perhaps kills) people. Man have to quit basing the pollution argument on how many dollars he/she can earn and get back some morality. While there is nothing wrong in turning a profit, there is when the result of that profit physically harms a human being or, for that matter, unnecessarily an animal.

  Make the penalty SEVERE including imprisonment for anyone taking shortcuts and endangering our ecosystem/people. You’ll see a lot less “Oops! (e.g. the BP Spill) then.

• (UPDATED) ‘Stunner’: Congressman Claims AP Phone Scandal Involved House of Reps. ‘Cloakroom’

  May 17, 2013 at 10:24am

  In reply to DZ-015.

  All you slamming @stevetherealist for his post which was:

  “the “culture of corruption” has been there long before this President was senator.”

  Just where in the hell did he post that obama is justified in his bad behavior due to prior actions of other administrations? He merely stated a fact. And many of you jumped to faulty conclusions from that factual statement he posted.

• IRS Accused of Stealing 60 Million Medical Records That Could Include Every Calif. State Judge and Hollywood Execs

  May 17, 2013 at 10:12am

  In reply to Seagal45.

  This is to the point that the current administration is going to get away with virtually anything they want to because no one in the house or senate has the balls to do anything about it. We have but two options left… 1 non violent and 1 violent.

  Nonviolent – starve the beast. Nearly impossible as there will never be the quantity of people involved in this that it would take to accomplish via this method.

  Violent – well, we all know what that means but again, pretty tough to do. Most people proclaiming “… when they pry it from my cold, dead hands” are nothing but armchair patriots who will whimper like a school girl with big brother comes knocking.