FRACKING: How many gallons of water does it take to recover One(1) Cubic Foot of natural gas? Water that must be contaminated by chemicals to make it useable in the recovery process as to render it permanently unuseable. Water that will remain so contaminated that it will be unfit to flush a toilet. I suspect that we will run out of drinkable water while trying to solve our energy problems! Who will be the winner here? I would hazard that there will be None!
I would aver that nothing will prove more precisely the old Maxim: "What goes around, comes around", than the fact that what, we have, allowed to be Sprayed on our Crops, Spilled onto our Land -including the run-off from crops, Spewed into our Air, Buried in our Soil, DUMPED INTO OUR WATERS, left in our sub-surface as a result of Mining and Drilling operations, will soon be seen, smelt and tasted, in that order, as it comes back at us out of our spigots.
Count on it!
The potential for the survival of our environment is directly proportional to the, insatiable, sociopathic GREED of the "Special Interests" and their carte blanche to continue to Pollute, Deceive the Public and, then, Pollute some more! If not brought under control, GREED will soon take this great Country Down!
We are our Environment’s Keeper!
If not us, WHO? Certainly not those who are Profiting from its Destruction!
Tom Nass
5th Marine Division - WWII

Any business practice that is regulated needs to be monitored to ensure compliance. Regulation isn't cheap, and regulated businesses need to pay a tax for it. But also, offending businesses need to be fined appropriately for their actions, and the fines imposed need to take into consideration damage to property and/or resources like water.

Let's be the heros of earth's future versus the villians of earth's demise. Oversee the fracking in your state!

Let's be the heros of earth's future versus the villians of earth's demise. Oversee the fracking in your state!

Fracing on fault lines is not merely unwise it may be down right catastrophic. Our geologists should stop being blinded by shale, and think about the north american craton, the fault lines and the potencial for serious earh movement due to deep drilling on fault lines. Already there have been several shallow eathquakes, in this country and others, brought on by fracking in places where eathquakes of this sort are unusual-- like the ramapo mt. fault here in NY. California, needless to say, is a powder keg of faults. Fracing fault lines is not inconvenient to the resients.. bad for the water, or a political volley ball... it could prove to be a disaster for all.

I live in Oneida County in the middle of NY State where the Marcellus Shale deposit has been targeted to be fracked. This is very close to the Adirondack Park, where thousands of natural wilderness acres, hundreds of lakes, mountains, plants, animals ,birds, have been set aside by NY State to be forever wild and pristine. If Fracking is allowed to happen, greedy gas companies given permission by NY State politicians and the DEC, millions of watersheds, wells, will be toxic due to chemical pollution of the fracking process. Untold acres, farms, homes and land will have shale mountains of slag, thousands of trucks halling this mess, roads, traffic and totally oblivious corporate entities making huge profits from taking this natural land and destroying it, taking clean water, clean air, away forever! It will NEVER be the same nor will farm lands, peaceful communites, grazing pastures, clean water, healthly people and animals. There Is another way. We have FREE WIND here in upstate NY that blows all year long. Very Strong wind at that.! Wind power can produce energy that will NOT pollute our water nor tear up our forever wild part of this beautiful state. But-Capitalism Does NOT have to win. Money in the pockets of unregulated gas, energy corporate greedy investors, at the expense of the lives and future lives of everyone living in this part of NY State can never be above the responsibility we all have for the future of life on earth. WE must all protest , be activists, and stop this greed Now, before it will be too late!

I live in Oneida County in the middle of NY State where the Marcellus Shale deposit has been targeted to be fracked. This is very close to the Adirondack Park, where thousands of natural wilderness acres, hundreds of lakes, mountains, plants, animals ,birds, have been set aside by NY State to be forever wild and pristine. If Fracking is allowed to happen, greedy gas companies given permission by NY State politicians and the DEC, millions of watersheds, wells, will be toxic due to chemical pollution of the fracking process. Untold acres, farms, homes and land will have shale mountains of slag, thousands of trucks halling this mess, roads, traffic and totally oblivious corporate entities making huge profits from taking this natural land and destroying it, taking clean water, clean air, away forever! It will NEVER be the same nor will farm lands, peaceful communites, grazing pastures, clean water, healthly people and animals. There Is another way. We have FREE WIND here in upstate NY that blows all year long. Very Strong wind at that.! Wind power can produce energy that will NOT pollute our water nor tear up our forever wild part of this beautiful state. But-Capitalism Does NOT have to win. Money in the pockets of unregulated gas, energy corporate greedy investors, at the expense of the lives and future lives of everyone living in this part of NY State can never be above the responsibility we all have for the future of life on earth. WE must all protest , be activists, and stop this greed Now, before it will be too late!

Stop fracking!

California, do the smart thing and ban fracking altogrther . . . NOW! Before it's too late.

Good to see draft regs are on the way. It's a start.

The oil & gas companies are only interested in profits & their bonuses. They will poison all of us if it improves their chances to achieve their goals. SHUT THEM DOWN AND THROW THEM OUT, WE MUST PROTECT WHAT IS OURS ......THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.

Fracking was attempted here in Lake county, but the rock layers proved to be too crumbly and/or impervious to be useful. This project was a Department of Energy authorized attempt to profit off our underground resources of trapped heat and steam. It is not acceptable, and subjected our already earthquake-prone area to harm, danger and threats unknown. Chemicals could have been plunged down into the earth and run off into our fragile water supply of streams and rivers. We don't need it that bad. It was an experiment gone wrong conducted by our tax dollars! I called the Dept. of Energy and they did respond to me. it does happen.

I think that Fracking needs to stop, there are to many unknowns, and in this case when the unknowns are discovered it will be to late for people near these wells. There will be deaths, cancers, neurological problems in children, etc. Can we really afford to wait that long to stop this dangerous process? And California, how do they know that all this drilling won't create a large earthquake, I mean they are Fracturing rock deep down in the earth, that's a little scary to me.

Please oversee the tracking industry practices in your state.

We have been fracking other countries for years. Now we get to see to frack ourselves. Well at least you are fracking your own people. Let their faces bf what you see at night when you know it may harm them. Have your name as one of hone ones responsible for destroying Calif. in years to come you will becursed and condemned. But what will you care you will be dead.

I live in Arlington TX and when I found out this drilling was to be by my family, I studied the process full time for a good two years and in a nutshell, the technology is not there yet to do this safely by people. Even if they use electric instead of diesel rigs to drill, the diesel compressors and generators spew VOC's. During fracturing, the sand catching pillow case/socks fail to mitigate toxic, silica dust exposing workers and residents/students into the neighborhoods/schools. And during flowback, even if they use Green Completions equipment (separator/pipeline), the topflow at the beginning stages of flowback allow hydrocarbons to escape from the OPEN HATCH flowback tanks. They need to use gas buster (degasser) equipment, but it is not mandated by any local,state or federal laws so even the EPA missed that one, so the un-sale-able/dirty gas is being vented into our airshed. There aren't any rules either to mandate that the wells get flowed back right away after fracturing. The 3 wells frac'd by my house last month by the Cowboy Stadium will not be flowed back this year until the pipeline is in place, and so stale flowback (sour well) with dangerous sulfides emissions are very likely. This happened once before at another Chesapeake (Lynn Smith) drill site last March where 911 had to dispatch paramedics for Jean Stephens who was stricken in her own parking lot.

I am doing an undergraduate research project right now about the correlation between fracking and earthquakes. Obviously I wish I picked a different topic as there isn't too much info out there about this. Everything I have researched all say that a certain criteria has or has not been met (depending on the article) that fracking is the reason for the earthquakes in places like Oklahoma or Ohio. However they mever specify what yhat criteria is. there seems to be a lot that is being hidden from the public about fracking. what chenicals are being used just is one of the issues. But my real concern is: What is fracking doing to the land above? If fracking is drilling down thousands of miles below the surface to the shale reserves and then fracturing the shale,(shale not being that hard of a material anyway) could this possibly cause huge pitfalls? Or a shift is the rock layer above?

Fracking should be banned! It's terrifying and ruining our lands for the people where it's done. We need to pull this practice from hungry oil and shale fanatics! STOP FRACKING!!
Too many horrible stories and practices from the people who have to be near it.

Fracking using the method and technology that China uses is safer with no negative environmental impact

I hope you guys succeed in fighting this here in California. I didn't know what fracking was until one night I heard massive underground explosions right below my house. These mother fuckers are going to pay with their lives if they don't hault their operations soon.

Have been reading recently that earthquake activity is increasing in areas know to be quake-prone, and that quakes have been initiated in areas without such history. This is happening specifically where fracking is underway. Perhaps this is another route to take to prevent this obscene practice from progressing much farther. Please research this and add it to your legal briefcase.

Kathleen: I am a member of San Luis Obispo County Water Resources Advisory Committee, and I am trying to compile information on fracking. Clearly EJ has concerns, and I have seen the Gasland movie, but I am trying to uncover any documentable cases of fracking fluids or gas/oil showing up in drinking water or potential domestic aquifers that can be demonstrated as coming from bad industry practices in California. We are also seeing great interest in the Monterey Shale but not in other units, and we are getting hints that oil rater than gas extraction is a target. Any information would be we;come.
Dr. David H. Chipping. Cal Poly SLO- emeritus