Comments on: Matt Damon Takes Fracking from Gasland to the Promised Land

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:09:40 +0000

[…] spoken out against fracking and other extreme-extraction methods, such as Tar Sands Oil, include Matt Damon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo, and more, including Julia Louise-Dreyfus (who, in this video, calls […]

By: Mike Knapp

Mike Knapp — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:16:00 +0000

There’s a group of local residents in the area where the movie was actually filmed that are extremely upset at the way that gas drilling is being portrayed in this movie. Western Pennsylvania is the literally the birthplace of gas and oil drilling. There’s over 10,000 gas and oil wells drilled in Armstrong county over the last 150 years. The farms here are not brown. The livestock is not sick. There is no contaminated water, at least from not from gas drilling (turn of the century coal mines have hurt many local waterways). Gas drilling has always been a welcome and highly supported activity here. We’ve witnessed it up close and personal for generations, and we’re not the least bit scared of it.

Check it out: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Armstrong-County-Promised-Land-Pride/207840226013585

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:05:00 +0000

It’s going to take cheap storage to displace natural gas. We can cut the use of gas with more wind and solar but due to their variable nature gas will still be in demand as fill-in power.

If one of the companies such as Ambri or Aquion can bring their storage batteries to market and give us storage for < $0.02/kWh (their projections) then we can store wind-electricity for a price competitive with gas generation. And without the CO2/fracking problems.

By: Edward Kerr

Edward Kerr — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:51:00 +0000

Until we get serious about developing the alternatives that exist fracking won’t be stopped by all the protesting in the world. We need energy and unless one offers solutions to that dilemma it will be business as usual and the safety of your drinking water be damned. I live in Pa over the Marcellus Shale deposit and I’m concerned about my drinking water. There is a rig nearby that could easily impact my drinking water. The idea that my (and my loved ones) health MUST take a back seat to corporate profits and our need for energy really ticks me off when I KNOW that SAFE and CLEAN alternatives exist and are being ignored because they will require investment. By the time the corporations “get it” there won’t be enough to invest to save our sorry butts or their precious income. (he said with venom dripping from his lips)
Edward Kerr