Don’t Frack with Our Water!

Natural gas drilling threatens public health and the environment.

By Polly Howells

As the rush to locate new reserves of diminishing domestic fossil fuels intensifies, gas companies have returned to the scene where America's Industrial Revolution began 150 years ago: the oil fields of western Pennsylvania. The problem is that the so-called natural gas these companies extract is [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    The author probably means that the Marcellus Shale holds 20 years of the country’s natural gas usage, not 2 years. In 2008, 23.8 trillion cubic feet was used in the US and the Marcellus holds an estimated 500 trillion cubic feet.

    United States Posted by Lee Woodmansee on Oct 5, 2009 at 6:08 AM

    Excellent journalism and a really important topic. As the financial crunch gets worse, who can blame people for giving in, sooner or later, to get the chunk of cash? The more people know about the possibly deadly results, the better for us all.

    United States Posted by Evelyn Messinger on Oct 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM
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