After Bush/Cheney were elected in 2004, the zealots had a free for all for the next two years of the country's legislative agenda. They tried to destroy the Social Security Laws and when that failed they turned to decades of environmental protections of the American people and land put in place by prior Republican and Democratic Presidents alike.
The practice of 'hydraulic fracturing' completely destroys air and water quality with abandon. Once the procedures are instituted there is no repairing the damage and what follows is profound misery of citizens and land owners. Children's health are damaged forever.
There isn't much to say other than the very fact that the 2005 Energy Bill needs to be repealed while recognizing the laws that allowed this level of exploitation is nothing short of treason of the American people. It demolished every Environmental Law previously put in place and allowed the complete exploitation of the American people and their lands. The Tea Party is just more of the same with aspirations to completely destroy any law and/or amendment back to the USA Constitution since 1776.
The 2005 Energy Bill seeks to disable any State Environmental protections of its citizens, is a direct assault on State's Rights only to add billions and billions of fiscal burden due to this exploitation by the 'gas industry' alone.
The people that have signed the contracts with the Gas Industry to allow hydraulic fracturing of their land were never disclosed the dangers to this practice. What follows once landowners 'find out' the bad news, are attempts to mitigate damages through the courts. It doesn't matter the mitigation. The citizens' health are suffering and cattle ranchers are faced with allowing their cattle to drink contaminated water and breath contaminated air.
Currently, unless the cattle/livestock are showing overtly poor health; not molecular and metobolic damage that would show over time; by the chemicals and the methane that are a result of these practices are they considered contaminated and removed from the opportunity for human consumption. I am not sure that keeps them from being used for reincorporation into cattle feed or pet foods, no different than prions.
The 'hydralic fracturing' of Earth, a method to remove methane from its 'secure location' is far too dangerous to citizens to even conceive of anyone legislating the slow deaths of Americans. The Bush/Cheney administration along with their Republican majority, at the time, need to prosecuted for allowing the practice to exploit the lands of this country without any protection to the citizens and the wildilfe of the lands of the people.
The BLM has profound responsiblity to halt any and all methane extraction from the lands that belong to the American people. This is simply an outrage. Since this occurred in 2005 every form of wildlife on BLM lands are now facing Threatened or Endangered status with numbers dwindling annually. Hydraulic Fracturing is directly responsible for this destruction.
Additionally, the lands where this practice is destroying life in every form is also emitting huge amounts of methane gas into the troposphere of Earth. This practice will move methane to a larger problem than carbon dioxide is now. Currently, the CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) is 460 ppm (part per million). This includes methane as well as all the other Greenhouse Gases.
The subterranian methane resources of the USA extends over 34 states and comprises millions of square miles of land. It is illustrated clearly in this film that there are 'methane seeps' emitting one-sixth cubic foot per second of pure uninterrupted methane into the atmosphere. (Two foot high flame that is approximately 3 inches square equals one sixth cubic foot.) These seeps are approximately one square foot and occur every six feet. There are 43,560 square feet per acre of land. If these seeps are occurring every 6 square feet that means there are 1210 seeps per acre. That interprets into over 201 cubic feet of methane per second per acre emitted from lands where they occur. There are 640 acres per square mile. That equals 128,640 cubic feet of methane emitted into the troposphere per square mile per second. Spread that over 34 states and it is a profound environmental disaster!
That is a direct assault on the safety of Americans as stated by the Supreme Court which clearly stated the US EPA has the direct responsiblity to protect the American people from such emissions of Greenhouse Gases.
There is absolutely no science supporting any of the practices of Hydraulic Fracturing of Earth to obtain methane gas (NATURAL GAS). The 2007 decision of the Supreme Court preempts the laws of 2005 and demands the Federal EPA to regulate this gas and hence this industry. There is profound need for scientific investigation in the amount of methane and other Greenhouse Gases released by these practices and any further use of these practices are highly illegal. All of these practices need to be stopped and further scientific investigation to the current and potential damages of these practices investigated and eliminated from any place in this country.
The elimination of any and all environmental laws by the 2005 assault against the rights of Americans prohibits the Writ of Habeous Corpus that dates back to 1762 in this country. That is the purpose of environmental laws and work related health laws and health laws in general. They are in place to protect human health from the ravages of capitalism at its worse and this is just about as bad as it gets.
I demand the federal EPA to stop any and all practices of hydraulic fracturing, put in place sceintific investigation to its damages to all effected lands to date and hold the industry responsible for all damages to public and private lands in contracts with undisclosed dangers that are destroying lives and land of Amreicans including all the lands under the auspices of the Bureau of Land Management. Leases need to be cancelled and no monies returned until the damage to the land and its wildlife is known and costs for restoration are realized.
The Secretary of Energy is going to have to commission stuides as to how to stop the seeps and end the oozing of huge subterranian chemical vats. These areas of methane now mixed with very dangerous chemicals pose more of a danger to the national security of the USA than even the BP oil seep in the Gulf of Mexico.
While I am on the subject, why is any oil and gas seep allowed anywhere within the boundaries of the USA including the Gulf of Mexico where a seep from a separate well was discovered while attempting to close the well of the Deepwater Horizon? There should be no oil and/or gas seeps anywhere in the USA that has been caused by human intervention. That is pure unadulterated sloppiness and disregard for the rights of Americans. Natural seeps, where not mitigated by bacteria and proven to be unsafe even with bacterial mitigation should be addressed as well.
I also demand proof to the success of bacteria removing oil in the water column in the Gulf of Mexico.
The practice of hydraulic fracturing has to be the absolutely worse assault on the lands and citizens of the USA since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Never in a million years would I expect any elected President, Vice President or Congress to have such contempt for the health and well being of Americans to simply destroy policies that protect them. This is completely unconscionable. It is nothing short of treason. Any elected official is sworn to defend and protect, not destroy at will.
The Plutocracy is sincerely a danger to the rights of all Americans and this is just the first example of how completely destructful their methods are to achieve wealth for global stockholders. The disrespect for life in any form it takes by the methods of the gas industry is completely counter culture to the moral content of the people of the USA.
Do not put Republicans of any variety back into office. It will be the saddest day in this country and will be the end of the integrity of the American people. I promise you that.
End the use of fossil fuels. Localize economies and seek to place high priorities on solar and wind energy at all levels of energy solutions. Town ordinances need to place solar solutions as a high priority in any zoning regulations. Buildings should be optimally designed to receive optimal amounts of solar energy to their purposes through roof and building design. If they can do it in Sweden, it can be done here.
The solar and wind industries have to take a more aggressive stance to the importance of their energy potentias in the USA and force the outlaw of such dangerous practices by the oil and gas industry. I would be suing the oil and gas and coal industry for moral propaganda that is filling Americans with false claims to their practices. There is such as thing as 'truth in advertizing.' What is everyone waiting for?
In case anyone wants to know what the future of housing looks like, this is it.
Here’s a new solar home, designed from the start not just to supply the home’s occupants with 100% of the electricity they need, but to ship its surplus electrons to the grid.
Karin Adalberth, a doctor of building physics, worked with her local green utility E. ON to design the solar plan for Villa Akarp, which she is building near Malmo in Sweden. During the long dark winters of Sweden, her house will buy electricity from the grid. During summers, her house will supply the grid.
