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fracking?
En route to Los Angeles flying somewhere over California, I noticed a bunch of barren empty lots that seemed to follow two ridge-lines in the desert. After watching Josh Fox's recent documentary Gasland, I think these are hydraulic fracturing sites.
"Fracking" is a harmful practice used for creating boreholes fundamental to oil and natural gas extraction, in which a toxic cocktail of chemicals is injected deep below the ground in order to fracture rock formations.
In 2005, the Bush administration pushed through the Energy Policy Act or the "Halliburton loophole," which exempted hydraulic fracturing from previous federal regulations and allowed the practice to rapidly proliferate. Since 2009, the FRAC Act, which calls for the disclosure of the chemicals being used in hydraulic fracturing, has been sitting on a table somewhere waiting to be reviewed by some committee.
For more information visit gaslandthemovie.com/
fracking?
En route to Los Angeles flying somewhere over California, I noticed a bunch of barren empty lots that seemed to follow two ridge-lines in the desert. After watching Josh Fox's recent documentary Gasland, I think these are hydraulic fracturing sites.
"Fracking" is a harmful practice used for creating boreholes fundamental to oil and natural gas extraction, in which a toxic cocktail of chemicals is injected deep below the ground in order to fracture rock formations.
In 2005, the Bush administration pushed through the Energy Policy Act or the "Halliburton loophole," which exempted hydraulic fracturing from previous federal regulations and allowed the practice to rapidly proliferate. Since 2009, the FRAC Act, which calls for the disclosure of the chemicals being used in hydraulic fracturing, has been sitting on a table somewhere waiting to be reviewed by some committee.
For more information visit gaslandthemovie.com/