Is fracking safe?   
      
   No. Fracking, as currently practiced across the United States,    
   poses serious risks to the health and safety of communities and the   
   environment.   
   Water supplies across the country have been contaminated by fracking.    
   There have been multiple documented cases where natural gas, or methane,    
   has migrated out of wells and into underground aquifers.    
   The fracking process also forces gallons of chemically-treated watered into    
   the ground along with numerous byproducts including chemicals, naturally    
   occurring radioactive materials (NORMs), dissolved solids, liquid hydrocarbons    
   including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene, and heavy metals.    
      
   What do you mean you don't know all the chemicals being used for fracking?    
   Haven't you done your research?   
      
   Oh, we've done our research, alright. The reason many fracking chemicals    
   go unknown is because they're never actually disclosed at all, anywhere, to   
   anyone, ever. Fracking was explicitly made exempt from the Safe Water Drinking   
   Act by a piece of energy legislation passed by Congress called the Energy   
   Policy Act of 2005. This    
   exemption allows gas companies to inject unknown and/or toxic materials   
   directly into, below, or adjacent to underground    
   sources of drinking water without reporting the chemicals or the    
   quantities of these chemicals to the government or to the public.   
      
   Don't we have the technology to make fracking safe?   
       
   Nope, no technology currently exists to make fracking safe. Here are some of   
   the numbers released by drilling giants Schlumberger, Archer Oil & Gas,   
   Southwestern Energy, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers:   
      
   - Around 5% of oil and gas wells leak immediately and up to 60% of them fail   
   over a 30-year time period.   
      
   - According to multiple studies, about 35% of all oil and gas wells are    
   leaking now.   
      
   These industry reports support similar findings from state agencies, like the    
   Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Colorado Oil and   
   Gas Conservation Commission. Some recent modifications to cementing   
   regulations misguidedly include requirements on cement strength. But it is not   
   a question of stronger cement    
   or better technology. Industry's own documents say that:   
   "strength is not the major issue in oil well cementing under any circumstances   
   ...    
   cement clearly cannot resist the shear that is the most common reason for oil   
   well distortion and rupture during active production."In other words, the high   
   stresses and rock movements deep underground will cause a significant   
   proportion of wells to fail    
   no matter what.   
      
   Here you can read more:    
   http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking/faq/technology-safety   
      
   Kerstin   
      
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