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'''Hydraulic fracturing''', or '''fracking''', is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and other (secret) chemicals under high pressure to increase oil extraction from rocks. It can cause earthquakes<ref>http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/fracking_earthquakes</ref> and pollute the drinking water a long distance away from where it is carried out.<ref>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8558485/fracking-water-contamination-pennsylvania-study</ref>
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'''Hydraulic fracturing''', or '''fracking''', is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and other (secret) [[chemicals]] under high pressure to increase [[oil|oil extraction]] from rocks. It can cause [[earthquakes]] <ref>http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/fracking_earthquakes</ref> and pollute the [[drinking water]] a long distance away from where it is carried out.<ref>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8558485/fracking-water-contamination-pennsylvania-study</ref>
  
 
==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
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The [[USGS]] admits that "fracking causes small earthquakes", but claims that "they are almost always too small to be a safety concern." <ref>http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3428</ref><ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomzeller/2015/01/06/yes-fracking-can-be-directly-linked-to-earthquakes/</ref> In 2015, a paper in the [[Canadian Geotechnical Journal]] suggested that "using computer analysis prior to drilling could limit seismic events as a result of hydraulic fracturing".<ref>http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20151111-predrilling-computer-analysis-could-limit-frackinginduced-earthquakes</ref>
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The [[USGS]] admits that "fracking causes small earthquakes", but claims that "they are almost always too small to be a safety concern." <ref>http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3428</ref><ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomzeller/2015/01/06/yes-fracking-can-be-directly-linked-to-earthquakes/</ref> In [[2015]], a paper in the [[Canadian Geotechnical Journal]] suggested that "using computer analysis prior to drilling could limit seismic events as a result of hydraulic fracturing".<ref>http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20151111-predrilling-computer-analysis-could-limit-frackinginduced-earthquakes</ref>
  
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==Earthquakes==
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== Problems ==
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Some scientists are highly concerned about the risks of fracking induced eathquakes and the lack of regulation of investigation of its safety.<ref>http://news.discovery.com/earth/could-fracking-cause-a-major-earthquake-150116.htm</ref>
 
  
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===Oklahoma's unprecedented rise===
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===Earthquakes===
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Some scientists are highly concerned about the risks of fracking induced earthquakes and the lack of regulation of investigation of its safety.<ref>http://news.discovery.com/earth/could-fracking-cause-a-major-earthquake-150116.htm</ref>
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====Oklahoma's unprecedented rise====
 
[[image:Fracking_Oklahoma's_earthquakes.png|left|thumb|400px]]
 
[[image:Fracking_Oklahoma's_earthquakes.png|left|thumb|400px]]
 
[[George Choy]], a seismologist at the [[US Geological Survey]] reported a "completely unprecedented" increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma, which is naturally far from fault lines. From 1975 to 2008, the state experienced anywhere from 0-3 earthquakes a year which registered at 3.0 or higher on the Richter scale. Then the numbers jumped as fracking increased: there were 20 in 2009, 43 in 2010, 63 in 2011, 34 in 2012, 106 in 2013, 585 in 2014 and 857 in 2015 (more than the rest of the continental US combined that year).<ref>http://m.koco.com/weather/oklahoma-ha-more-earthquakes-in-2015-than-all-of-continental-us-combined/37209902</ref> The largest of these was 4.5, not large enough enough to damage buildings. Opinion remains divided whether fracking increases the risk of larger earthquakes.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/one-us-state-went-two-quakes-585-054259418.html</ref>
 
[[George Choy]], a seismologist at the [[US Geological Survey]] reported a "completely unprecedented" increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma, which is naturally far from fault lines. From 1975 to 2008, the state experienced anywhere from 0-3 earthquakes a year which registered at 3.0 or higher on the Richter scale. Then the numbers jumped as fracking increased: there were 20 in 2009, 43 in 2010, 63 in 2011, 34 in 2012, 106 in 2013, 585 in 2014 and 857 in 2015 (more than the rest of the continental US combined that year).<ref>http://m.koco.com/weather/oklahoma-ha-more-earthquakes-in-2015-than-all-of-continental-us-combined/37209902</ref> The largest of these was 4.5, not large enough enough to damage buildings. Opinion remains divided whether fracking increases the risk of larger earthquakes.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/one-us-state-went-two-quakes-585-054259418.html</ref>
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====UK====
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Fracking was suspended in Blackpool in August [[2019]] for 18 hours after it the largest ever earthquake.<ref>https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/22/blackpool-fracking-stopped-by-earthquake-that-is-biggest-recorded-so-far-10611561/</ref>
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===Spills===
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Fracking is associated with higher numbers of oil spills.<ref>http://livetheorganicdream.com/fracking-caused-6648-spills-four-states-alone-new-study-finds/</ref>
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===Disposal of Nuclear Waste===
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In 2015, [[Truthstream Media]] reported old newspaper stories from linked fracking to the disposal of [[nuclear waste]]. It stated [[Halliburton]] has a "long-standing relationship with the [[deep state]]" and that "deep ties [exist] between the oil and nuclear industries".
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|text=Researchers at Halliburton Co’s. Technical Center here working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists, have combined the oil well cementing technique with the hydraulic fracturing production stimulation technique to entomb radioactive wastes in an impermeable shale formation a thousand feet underground.
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The method used at Oak Ridge begins by mixing the waste with a cement slurry, pumping the mixture down a hole drilled into the Conasuaga shale and then fracturing the shale to create a horizontal crack. The crack fills with the mixture to form a thin, horizontal sheet several hundred feet across. The mix sets to permanently hold the radioactive waste in the formation.
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===Poisoning of Aquifers===
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Fracking in the USA has poisoned aquifers.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland</ref><ref>https://journalistsresource.org/environment/fracking-groundwater-poison-shale-gas-oil/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-fracking-idUSTRE7B71TL20111208</ref>
  
 
==Legality==
 
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[[Dick Cheney]] inserted a provision in the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 that has come to be known as the '[[Cheney loophole]]'. This allows the [[fracking]] industry to circumvent the [[Safe Drinking Water Act]] by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.<ref>http://cleanwater.org/page/fracking-laws-and-loopholes</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/how-cheneys-loophole-is-f_b_502924.html</ref>
 
[[Dick Cheney]] inserted a provision in the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 that has come to be known as the '[[Cheney loophole]]'. This allows the [[fracking]] industry to circumvent the [[Safe Drinking Water Act]] by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.<ref>http://cleanwater.org/page/fracking-laws-and-loopholes</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/how-cheneys-loophole-is-f_b_502924.html</ref>
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==Spills==
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==Opposition==
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Fracking is associated with higher numbers of oil spills.<ref>http://livetheorganicdream.com/fracking-caused-6648-spills-four-states-alone-new-study-finds/</ref>
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[[Daz]]'s song ''[[We Are The 99%]]'' includes the lyric "You can stick your fracking drilling up your arse".
  
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==Disposal of Nuclear Waste==
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==War preparation==
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In 2015, [[Truthstream]] Media reported old newspaper stories from linked fracking to the disposal of nuclear waste. It stated [[Halliburton]] has a "long-standing relationship with the [[deep state]]" and that "deep ties [exist] between the oil and nuclear industries".
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The option to get fuel via this highly polluting method can be viewed as a preparation for [[war]]. When the main supply via [[Saudi Arabia]],<ref>https://www.investopedia.com/articles/company-insights/082316/worlds-top-10-oil-exporters.asp</ref> the [[middle east]] in general and other main suppliers is brought to an end, then any additional supply that is viable is needed. So an industry that can extract these "additional reserves" has to be in place.<ref>https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-152/ - (a few minutes after the start) [https://www.bitchute.com/video/judNwPTRucie/ Jungle Bus Milli, a Dutch woman living in the UK on Nazi Prince Bernhard &amp; how power really works]</ref>
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“The method used at Oak Ridge begins by mixing the waste with a cement slurry, pumping the mixture down a hole drilled into the Conasuaga shale and then fracturing the shale to create a horizontal crack. The crack fills with the mixture to form a thin, horizontal sheet several hundred feet across. The mix sets to permanently hold the radioactive waste in the formation.”<br/>
 
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An increasingly desperate method to prolong the age of fossil fuels, one that threatens to cause long term harm to the biosphere, not only in the longer term by fueling climate change, but in the much nearer term by polluting drinking water.
Fracking-concessions.jpg

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and other (secret) chemicals under high pressure to increase oil extraction from rocks. It can cause earthquakes [1] and pollute the drinking water a long distance away from where it is carried out.[2]

Official narrative

The USGS admits that "fracking causes small earthquakes", but claims that "they are almost always too small to be a safety concern." [3][4] In 2015, a paper in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal suggested that "using computer analysis prior to drilling could limit seismic events as a result of hydraulic fracturing".[5]

Problems

Earthquakes

Some scientists are highly concerned about the risks of fracking induced earthquakes and the lack of regulation of investigation of its safety.[6]

Oklahoma's unprecedented rise

Fracking Oklahoma's earthquakes.png

George Choy, a seismologist at the US Geological Survey reported a "completely unprecedented" increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma, which is naturally far from fault lines. From 1975 to 2008, the state experienced anywhere from 0-3 earthquakes a year which registered at 3.0 or higher on the Richter scale. Then the numbers jumped as fracking increased: there were 20 in 2009, 43 in 2010, 63 in 2011, 34 in 2012, 106 in 2013, 585 in 2014 and 857 in 2015 (more than the rest of the continental US combined that year).[7] The largest of these was 4.5, not large enough enough to damage buildings. Opinion remains divided whether fracking increases the risk of larger earthquakes.[8]

UK

Fracking was suspended in Blackpool in August 2019 for 18 hours after it the largest ever earthquake.[9]

Spills

Fracking is associated with higher numbers of oil spills.[10]

Disposal of Nuclear Waste

1964-oilmen.jpg

In 2015, Truthstream Media reported old newspaper stories from linked fracking to the disposal of nuclear waste. It stated Halliburton has a "long-standing relationship with the deep state" and that "deep ties [exist] between the oil and nuclear industries".

“Researchers at Halliburton Co’s. Technical Center here working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists, have combined the oil well cementing technique with the hydraulic fracturing production stimulation technique to entomb radioactive wastes in an impermeable shale formation a thousand feet underground. The method used at Oak Ridge begins by mixing the waste with a cement slurry, pumping the mixture down a hole drilled into the Conasuaga shale and then fracturing the shale to create a horizontal crack. The crack fills with the mixture to form a thin, horizontal sheet several hundred feet across. The mix sets to permanently hold the radioactive waste in the formation.”
 (1964)  [11]

Poisoning of Aquifers

Tracking proximity.jpg

Fracking in the USA has poisoned aquifers.[12][13][14]

Legality

Many countries place some legal restrictions on fracking, some such as France have an outright moratorium on fracking. In other countries, such as US, it has been greatly facilitated through legal changes, notably the infamous "Cheney Loophole".

US: The "Cheney Loophole"

Full article: Cheney Loophole

Dick Cheney inserted a provision in the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 that has come to be known as the 'Cheney loophole'. This allows the fracking industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.[15][16]

Opposition

Daz's song We Are The 99% includes the lyric "You can stick your fracking drilling up your arse".

War preparation

The option to get fuel via this highly polluting method can be viewed as a preparation for war. When the main supply via Saudi Arabia,[17] the middle east in general and other main suppliers is brought to an end, then any additional supply that is viable is needed. So an industry that can extract these "additional reserves" has to be in place.[18]


 

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Nieuwsuur“I'll pump everything out of the ground of what I can get out of the ground to meet the demand”Ben van Beurden
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References

  1. ↑ http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/fracking_earthquakes
  2. ↑ http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8558485/fracking-water-contamination-pennsylvania-study
  3. ↑ http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3428
  4. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomzeller/2015/01/06/yes-fracking-can-be-directly-linked-to-earthquakes/
  5. ↑ http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20151111-predrilling-computer-analysis-could-limit-frackinginduced-earthquakes
  6. ↑ http://news.discovery.com/earth/could-fracking-cause-a-major-earthquake-150116.htm
  7. ↑ http://m.koco.com/weather/oklahoma-ha-more-earthquakes-in-2015-than-all-of-continental-us-combined/37209902
  8. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/one-us-state-went-two-quakes-585-054259418.html
  9. ↑ https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/22/blackpool-fracking-stopped-by-earthquake-that-is-biggest-recorded-so-far-10611561/
  10. ↑ http://livetheorganicdream.com/fracking-caused-6648-spills-four-states-alone-new-study-finds/
  11. ↑ http://truthstreammedia.com/shock-fracking-used-to-inject-nuclear-waste-underground-for-decades/#comments Truthstream Media
  12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland
  13. ↑ https://journalistsresource.org/environment/fracking-groundwater-poison-shale-gas-oil/
  14. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-fracking-idUSTRE7B71TL20111208
  15. ↑ http://cleanwater.org/page/fracking-laws-and-loopholes
  16. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/how-cheneys-loophole-is-f_b_502924.html
  17. ↑ https://www.investopedia.com/articles/company-insights/082316/worlds-top-10-oil-exporters.asp
  18. ↑ https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-152/ - (a few minutes after the start) Jungle Bus Milli, a Dutch woman living in the UK on Nazi Prince Bernhard & how power really works
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