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  • Originally posted by randomscooter View Post
    The long awaited result is in.


    It's official: New York has banned fracking.

    After more than seven years of study, the state Department of Environmental Conservation today issued the final document needed to ban the controversial drilling practice, known formally as high-volume hydraulic fracturing.

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    • Farmers are content because they are making money from the royalties. I am not sure that fracking in itself is deleterious to the environment but I'll tell what is. Instead of remediating the chemical slurry that they use they drill a few miles down and under pressure dump the chemicals into the earth. In Ohio alone these pressurized chemicals migrate into fissures and faults. (Something that the mining companies are supposed to avoid.) As a result there are 50-80 small earth quakes daily in Ohio. With all the money they are making couldn't they afford to abate the chemicals and render them harmless through the proper technology instead of forcing them down into the bowels of the earth?
      What kind of stewards are we to permit that?
      Never Argue With An Idiot. They Will Drag You Down To Their Level And Beat You With Experience.

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      • Originally posted by Schultzz View Post
        What kind of stewards are we to permit that?

        C'mon Schultzzy, you know the answer to that one.
        “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. They smelled of moss in your hand. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
        ― Cormac McCarthy

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        • Hey Glen, what can we do to stop them? Aside from nothing? Might as well go fishing.
          Never Argue With An Idiot. They Will Drag You Down To Their Level And Beat You With Experience.

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