Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere

Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by pvaldes on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:10AM (#21246099)

We are talking about injecting heavy metals to aquifers and at the same time surface radon patches from deep areas. Mercury in water that somebody will drink later and Radon that kills silently people when accumulates in basements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsLEqjVbgA

And is known that had caused earthquakes in dense populated areas from Mediterranean coasts (see Castor Project) or US, so is a danger for infrastructures also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6PHVhjaNRI

And there is also this thing that I don't even have words for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJAKVnK4qM

All for a source of gas that could last one or two years in many cases, and then is exhausted and left contaminated. But is heavily subsidised by taxes in many cases

Fracking is greedy monkey stuff. Is a nonsense from any human point of view in any historical period (past or future) to pay for deliberately allowing a few people poison your own drink water.

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Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by ehnto on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:17AM (#21281681)

Excellent response, thank you for all that information. I wanted to try and see a positive side to it as energy independence is a good thing for a nation. But it doesn't look like it's worth it. Hopefully renewables make it unprofitable sooner rather than later.

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