So this artical talks about how PA is basically doing a terrible job at saving our water ways, and we are contaminating them because of all of the natural gas we are "fracking". All of the other states are regulating where the contaminates are going accepct for PA. of corse we tried to help the problem, we decided that nobody else can release their waste back into water, but the people who already were ARE allowed to continue. "At least 3.6 million barrels of the waste were sent to treatment plants that empty into rivers during the 12 months ending last June 30, according to state records" the artical says. now the EPA is trying to figure out if the levels of waste in the waterways now is going to effect the wildlife and humans. It also mentioned that the water plants downstream were having a difficult time staying within EPA maximum standards. The most suprising fact was the last one that the artical gave, "All 10 of the biggest drillers in the state say that they have either eliminated river discharges in the past few months, or reduced them to a small fraction of what they were a year ago. Together, those companies accounted for 80 percent of the wastewater produced in the state. "
this picture is of flammable water from somebody's tap. this is important because many people's tap water could end up like this is fracking is continued.
this picture is of flammable water from somebody's tap. this is important because many people's tap water could end up like this is fracking is continued.
I can't believe that PA's legal system is so unconcerned with this whole fracking process that they literally only spent 2-30 minutes reviewing over it! I mean, hello, you have all this waste going into our water systems, there are all sorts of problems floating all around us, especially the flammable liquids coming out of peoples' faucets, I mean wouldn't that at least hint to you that something serious needs to be done about the problem of fracking? If we're not careful about where we dispose of our wastes and pollution, our water supply will be so spoiled, it will hard to clean that water again!
ReplyDeleteThis article reminded me of the politics my mom was talking about involving PA earlier on this year, when we were having elections. She mentioned shortly after the guy who took office in PA, that he didn't plan on taxing any of the people or their equipment who drill under ground for the huge supply of natural gas underneath PA's soil. She said though no one likes taxes, it would have been better to have been taxed over all, because the money could help stimulate the economy or something to that affect. I know very little about finances and have a vague idea of how economics work, so I myself don't have much of an opinion on the whole matter, but I remember she was just shaking her head about it when she brought up the topic.
3. Though having a lack of either seems pretty bad, I guess I would have to say lack of water. We basically use both in our everyday living, but safe water is more important because we use it in even the smallest ways, so it's most important (we use it for showering, flushing the toilet, washing out hands, brushing our teeth, cooking, washing our clothing, etc.)
The fact the PA is not really concerned about any of this is horrible. They need ti really take more care into this. They obviously know what is happening because of this. They should reevaluate this and think differently about what they have to do. When the people that review it only take 2 minutes to look at it they obviously weren't concerned with it. Even at 30 minutes for reviewing it they really need to look at it carefully. The public is obviously concerned by this and that should be enough for the legal system to realize they need to do something better.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm not gonna lie but if I could light water on fire that would be pretty cool. Although the affects of drinking that water would be really bad. Thinking about what they are doing in my opinion needs to be stopped because we don't want people to have bad things to happen to them. If someone were not to be informed about this and they would continue drinking the same water. They would get extremely sick and probably even die. In my opinion out legal system either needs to review it for much longer or just stop the whole process.
1. If I had to obtain natural gas I would find where oil is and get it that way. If I were to do it this I way I could not live with myself knowing that I am poisoning the environment like that. So I would almost get a two for one because if you get it from above oil you can also get the oil too.