As a teen one of my favorite 70's songs was Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water". I was reminded of this song while watching the HBO documentary "GasLand" and I have to say that, while I'm not normally one to react to this type of show, this film really bothered me. What other reaction could one have when you see kitchen tap water set ablaze?
What are we, as a country, allowing corporations and the chase for the almighty dollar do to our future and the heritage handed to our children. The natural gas companies are currently ripping up North Texas. How can we be sure what results when chemical fracking is destroying the natural division of our underground resources? This could make the Gulf oil spill look like a Greenpeace project.
It would be considered a crime if any other company injected solvents into aquifers like this. But in 2005 clear air and water acts were deliberately overridden to allow companies to do this. If Americans don't wake up and regulate business to save the environment, our children won't be able to live in this country. Is corporate America sociopathic in pursuit of the next quarter's bottom line?
How long will it be before we have "Fire in the sky"?
'Gasland' Documentary Shows Water That Burns, Toxic Effects Of Natural Gas Drilling
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