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Title: Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)
Post by: News on May 02, 2016, 04:32:19 PM
Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY34PQUiwOQ#)
Cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations.


Title: CNN Explains: Fracking
Post by: News on May 02, 2016, 05:08:56 PM
CNN Explains: Fracking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAxsTJd7VCA#)
How is hydraulic fracturing different from drilling for oil? And why is it called 'fracking'? CNN explains it to you.


Title: Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
Post by: News on May 02, 2016, 05:12:33 PM
Fracking Hell: The Untold Story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEB_Wwe-uBM#)
An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains?

Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.

Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.

Waste from Pennsylvania gas wells -- waste that may also contain unacceptable levels of radium -- is routinely dumped across state lines into landfills in New York, Ohio and West Virginia. New York does not require testing waste for radioactivity prior to dumping or treatment. So drill cuttings from Pennsylvania have been dumped in New York's Chemung and other counties and liquid waste is shipped to treatment plants in Auburn and Watertown New York. How radioactive is this waste? Experts are calling are for testing to find out.
New York State may have been the first state in the nation to put a temporary hold on fracking pending a safety review, but it allows other states to dump toxic frack waste within its boundaries.

With a gas production boom underway in the Marcellus Shale and plans for some 400,000 wells in the coming decades, the cumulative impact of dumping potential lethal waste without adequate oversight is a catastrophe waiting to happen. And now U.S. companies are exporting fracking to Europe.


Title: The Dangers of Fracking: Exposed
Post by: News on May 02, 2016, 05:23:43 PM
The Dangers of Fracking: Exposed Pt. 1

The Dangers of Fracking: Exposed Pt. 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdHuLS3oPg#)
The Dangers of Fracking: Exposed Pt. 2

The Dangers of Fracking: Exposed Pt. 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiiPMBTPcQ#)
In November Free Speech TV traveled to Weld County for a tour of the fracking scene from Shane Davis, the Fractivist. What we saw was unbelievable. A recreational center with basketball courts, slides and picnic tables with an oil and gas well about 60 feet away. While in Weld County Shane interviewed Dan Leftwich an attorney who helps communites in Colorado enact sensible laws to regulate oil and gas industry.