Fracking is making its way up to Canada. Companies in Quebec are starting to get permission to perform this stuff. Frightening to say the least. It's as if i'm living in a different reality than these people. Even memory foam mattresses are made from oil, except for natural memory foam of course. Keep pushing against fracking and talk to your friends about it!!

Watch the documentary on Netflix called "gas land "
You'll get the whole picture about Fracking and the ugly truth about
Haliburton profits. Under the Bush/ Cheny reign
Big contacts, Corporate Greed and No Accountability
for destroying the environment, polluting water and killing
people in the areas they "frack"

This story is sad to learn, especially as it is part of America's race to "energy independence" due to our social addiction to fossil fuels. As one who worked in the Rocky Mt. National Park resorts during college summers over 60 years ago, my memory recalls glorious clean mountain air, filled with the smell of vast conifer forests. Last summer much of that forest burned in this area. Now this, to continue the degradation of what has been a glorious landscape. Do we really want to stay on this path?

I understand that diesel engines from compressors, trucks, drilling rigs and other heavy equipment generate pollutants which contribute to ozone formation in the atmosphere. In what ways does the actual process of hydraulic fracturing cause changes in the atmosphere and what are they? If there are not data that directly links the "fracking" process with ozone production, perhaps the environmental community should be careful to use more
specific terms regarding the shale -gas industry.

I live in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where natural gas fracking is the latest fossil fuel money maker. Not only does this process waste and ruin millions of gallons of water and destroy the land where the drilling takes place, but there are other negative consequences as well. The products that make up natural gas contain radon and benzene, both known carcinogens. From what I can research about natural gas drilling, the people who live in the areas where drilling takes place have a significantly increased risk of developing cancer. I am speaking to you as someone who is still trying to recover from stage 4 throat cancer, after working over 30 years in the natural gas industry. I am a non smoker who rarely drank alcohol which are the 2 main contributors to throat cancer that the doctors look to as links for this horrible disease. I worked for a local gas utility company and my duties among others was working on natural gas fired appliances, searching for natural gas leaks and changing out natural gas metering devices and then carrying them around all day in my service van, all the while inhaling the remaining gas products from these meters. I would notice that if I had been exposed to a considerable amount of this natural gas that for the next week or two I would develop a sinus infection and sore throat. After about 30 years of this exposure, I developed stage 4 throat cancer. I was shocked as I had been extremely healthy otherwise. I had over the years been reassured that there was nothing to worry about while breathing this noxious cocktail. I had my suspicions for years when many other of my fellow workers had developed a large number of various forms of cancer. Many were not as fortunate as I, and died as a result. I had to retire on disability as a result of this after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. It has been almost 3 years since my diagnosis and I have since moved a couple hundred miles away, where I am now faced with this natural gas fracking phenomenon, closer and closer to my home. I understand that people need jobs and the people that lease their land for this process need the income but I don't think that many people understand the dangers involved. The only upside to fossil fuels of any kind is it's availability, but at what cost to human life and suffering. It is a pollutant and a health hazard and needs to be phased out now. Big corporations never stop pollution over profit until they are ordered to do so. If they stopped now, the pollution already generated by the production and consumption of these products would take generations if not longer to clean up.

Good story, where is the actionable information?

What EPA action has been taken, how much local pressure is being put on the regulators?

Are there clean Fracking sites and dirty ones?
If so who are they?

There a laws on the books limiting soot & NOX emissions from Tuck Diesel engines,
do these cover drilling operations?

Has there been local protests because of the lax enforcement?

In the LA CA Basin only people living on the downwind (East) side of an air pollution source get effected by it. This allows people to work, live and tax these source leaving a downwind town to suffer from the pollution. Just look around LAX and then check the housing prices.
Does Denver CO have the same situation?

Are there any local watchdog NGOs?