{"id":1807,"date":"2014-11-19T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:11:27","slug":"you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it-what-its-like-to-have-fracking-in-your-backyard-alternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"You Have to See It to Believe It: What It&#8217;s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard | Alternet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/you-have-see-it-believe-it-what-its-have-fracking-your-backyard-0?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\">You Have to See It to Believe It: What It&#8217;s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard | Alternet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\">Ed Wade\u2019s property straddles the Wetzel and Marsh county lines in rural West Virginia and it has a conventional gas well on it. \u201cYou could cover the whole [well] pad with three pickups,\u201d said Wade. And West Virginia has lots of conventional wells \u2014 more than 50,000 at last count. West Virginians are so well acquainted with gas drilling that when companies began using high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing in 2006 to access areas of the Marcellus Shale that underlie the state, most residents and regulators were unprepared for the massive footprint of the operations and the impact on their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\">When it comes to a conventional well and a Marcellus well, \u201cThere is no comparison, none whatsoever,\u201d said Wade, who works with the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #598607; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcag-wv.org\/\">Wetzel County Action Group<\/a>. \u201cYou live in the country for a reason and it just takes that and turns it upside down. You know how they preach all the time that natural gas burns cleaner than coal; well, it may\u00a0<em>burn<\/em>\u00a0cleaner than coal, but it\u2019s a hell of a lot dirtier to extract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\">To understand what\u2019s at stake, you have to understand the vocabulary. Take the word \u201cfracking\u201d for example. When people say it\u2019s been around since the 1950s, they are referring to vertical fracturing, but what\u2019s causing all the contention lately is a much more destructive process known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. Or they\u2019re using &#8220;fracking&#8221; in a very limited way. \u201cThe industry uses [fracking] to refer just to the moment when the shale is fractured using water as the sledgehammer to shatter the shale,\u201d scientist Sandra Steingraber<a style=\"color: #598607; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/fracking\/renowned-science-writer-sandra-steingraber-puts-her-body-line-defend-against-fracking\">told AlterNet<\/a>. \u201cWith that as the definition they can say truthfully that there are no cases of water contamination associated with fracking. But you don\u2019t get fracking without bringing with it all these other things \u2014 mining for the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #598607; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/155514\/the_enviro_disaster_you_know_nothing_about%3A_the__eco-devastating_quest_for_%22frac_sand%22_in_rural_america\">frack sand<\/a>, depleting water, you have to add the chemicals, you have to drill, you have to dispose of the waste, you have drill cuttings. I refer to them all as fracking, as do most activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Have to See It to Believe It: What It&#8217;s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard | Alternet. Ed Wade\u2019s property straddles the Wetzel and Marsh county lines in rural West Virginia and it has a conventional gas well on it. \u201cYou could cover the whole [well] pad with three pickups,\u201d said Wade. 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