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Must-see video:
“If I had done to my grazing permit what oil and gas has done, I would have been pulled off of it. If I had created the surface disturbance, the erosion, the pollution of the water, the noxious weeds … I would not have a grazing permit.”
- Tweeti Blancett
http://www.sierraclub.org/scp/chronicles/episode4.aspx
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Tags: cattle, chemicals, DEC, farming, hydraulic fracturing, livestock, natural gas drilling, toxic, wildlife
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Dear Mr Cyr,
As a former farmer, I am appalled by these pictures. Is there any definite evidence that the tumors on these animals was caused by hydrofracking by-products? Is anyone doing any research on these incidents? If so, and there are definite links to the hydrofracking compounds, then they should be presented to the DEC immediately!
Where were these pictures taken? NY? Pennsylvania?
I would appreciate any further information you can provide on these incidents. Thank you.
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Hello Carol,.What the diseased calf and buck had in common was both were grazing on land where gas drilling hydrofracture had taken place. Those who believe it normal for beef and deer to be in such condition might consider that to be an irrelevant coincidence. The photo of the hideously deformed by cancer deer is from Louisiana. The photo of the diseased calf is from Arkansas. The Arkansas rancher who had leased his land for gas drilling reportedly had to dispose of his entire herd; while the herds of his neighbors who didn’t lease weren’t affected..For those informed of the types of chemicals that are used in hydrofracture, and the immense scale of use that would be required to actually extract the great amounts global corporations wish to extract of these last remnants of gas so tightly bound up within the material of the rock itself, unconventional gas drilling hydrofracture is clearly incompatible with agricultural use of land. If they get this gas, we will lose our clean water and eventually no longer be able to produce safe food..The DEC is well aware of the environmental unsoundness of this form of gas extraction. Unfortunately, due to corporate ownership of government, the DEC’s prime concern is maximizing energy resource extraction… not protecting the environment that all living things depend upon for health and well being.With government compromised by corporate campaign contribution ownership, agencies created for the protection of the people are no longer performing that function..The responsible research is being done by scientists who are independent of corporate/government influence (see TEDX)..TEDX Research – Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations:.Recent incidents raise issues on drilling, environment:.Arkansas Blog - Cow killers:http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/05/cow_killers.aspx
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Tags: cattle, chemicals, DEC, farming, hydraulic fracturing, livestock, natural gas drilling, toxic, wildlife
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Consider the effect that toxic chemicals used in Halliburton’s unconventional gas drilling hydrofracture process have on animals just one step down in the food chain:
Ulcers in cattle raised near gas drilling operation
Aggressive cancer in deer grazing near gas well
If you leased your property to corporations that will use hydrofracture to extract the last remnants of gas trapped too tightly in stone, you have allowed them to site toxic waste production facilities on your property.
Chemicals added to the enormous quantities of fresh water to be taken from our rivers and streams will forever remove that water from the natural water cycle. All the water used in hydrofracture becomes toxic waste, which New York State is allowing the polluters to run through municipal sewage treatment plants that have no ability to remove the chemicals from the water. The corrupt state government is deviously permitting the toxics to run straight on through municipal treatment plants, to then be dumped into our lakes, rivers, and streams.
Unconventional gas drilling also produces tremendous amounts of air pollution: Ozone that destroys crops and trees; and fugitive gases that increase global warming. The net effect of unconventional (low permeability stone deposit) gas drilling is more — not less — pollution.
If Albany’s facilitation of this global corporate invasion and occupation is not stopped, then over the next few decades there will be hundreds of thousands of high volume high pressure hydrfracture drilling operations sited throughout the farming country of the Catskill, Central, and Southern Tier regions of New York State. Each of those drilling sites will several times remove millions of gallons of fresh water and convert it into toxic waste. The cumulative environmental impact over time will be devastating. Our water, ground and air will be polluted. Twenty years from now the only people who might remain living, in the then gas extraction industrial zones that were traditionally farming areas, will be those too poor to move.
Got neighbors?
Got children?
Got a conscience?
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Tags: cattle, chemicals, DEC, farming, hydraulic fracturing, livestock, natural gas drilling, toxic, wildlife
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