Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Colossal Fracking Mess

from Vanity Fair. After the Gulf is destroyed, your water source may be next as the capitalist system in its obsession with growth continues to destroy the environment that supports life.
“Fracking,” as it’s colloquially known, involves injecting millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals, many of them toxic, into the earth at high pressures to break up rock formations and release natural gas trapped inside.