In other words, when treating the fracking chemicals exactly as the associated water from these wells there is no health hazard at all.
Other countries have regulated the type of chemicals used, this has not at all stopped companies investing in those places, the process depends mainly on water, sand (a ceramic called proppant) and high pressure.
Oh yes, the frack itself costs per well between half an hour and maybe two hours at the most, plus a couple of days rigging up and down.
But first, I don't see any real evil here. The ground around a working oil well is a messy place. You can't help but spill a little, and there's no malfeasance necessary to occasionally spill a lot (what you and I would call a lot)
Crap, there is absolutely no reason to spill either at the drilling site or during transport, all it takes is some solid regulation.
Every time I get gas, at least one drop hits the pavement, no matter how hard I try to tap it off.
In Europe filling stations have, by regulation, a spill proof surface and all runoff goes via a separator.
Over here in The Netherlands, a very large gas exporter, the same applies to drilling and production sites.
I totally believe Aruba when they say they did everything they were supposed to do.
Now there I might agree, in Texas there isn't much you are supposed to do...
I don't know the outfit but they are a reasonably size independent even though on a national or international scale they are tiny and could dissolve overnight without hurting the national energy market.
The problem is a lack of regulation and cowboy outfits that often disappear overnight.
Car emissions are regulated, not so the huge Diesel engines used in the industry.
I work worldwide in the industry, the US as about the only developed country that is so lenient towards the oil companies.
There also is a lot of bad journalism like the ever present mentioning of chemicals being used, hardly ever do these stories name those chemicals or the quantities used (~0.5%, mainly Glycol, some anti-bacterials)
Never do they mention that all oil and gas wells naturally produce very unhealthy water, this is normally disposed off in an environmental safe and responsible way, like re-injecting it back into the formation it came from.
Frack water, including it's small traces of chemicals should and can be disposed of similarly.
But the typical small cowboy-style frack operators sometimes go for the cheapest option local law allows them to get away with...
Please moan about these oil companies, but start by moaning about the regulators!
This is not the ISP's being in a position to milk the service and content providers.
Like I can chose from who I buy power or DSL, including TV and telphone, even though there is only one power line and one telephone or fiber cable to my house.
But I live in a democracy mainly run by and for the people...
What makes it bad and undemocratic is when the democratic principle of one-man one-vote is breached because some can contribute vastly more to 'their' PAC than others can to an opposing PAC.
Using the means available is their lawful right.
You do get only billed by the power generator but the distribution part is a separate charge.
Especially in a country that hides toilets and WC's behind doors marked Restroom, Ladies and Gents or even Powder Room.
But no, we don't agree.
I did cast a wide net, the adversaries of Israel might or might not be the same as the rogue states.
What they do have in common is a wish to drive Israel back into the sea and they usually consider The West an accomplice of Israel or vice-versa.
And by consequence you must have endured many instances where this 'isolating of the subject by minimal depth of field' was intended to be part of the scene.
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