PA's scenic Pine Creek Valley is overrun with 24 hour heavy duty truck traffic
James Northrup—
Hydrofracking & Aquifer Pollution via Faults — Edited 4 minutes
James (Chip) Northrup, former gas/oil industry planning manager, discusses some of the major problems of using high-volume slick-water horizontal hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) gas drilling method in NY.
—A Sustainable Otsego video shot and edited by Jon Manning.
James Northrup—
Hydrofracking & Aquifer Pollution via Faults — Full 27 minutes
Finally, Some Honesty in the Natural Gas Industry (Quoted from Love Canal Blog )
James (Chip) Northrup, a former gas/oil industry manager, discusses some of the major problems of using high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) gas drilling methods in New York State, one of them being the risk of gas migration through faults in NY State rock formations. Many of these faults are un-mapped and drillers would not be able to determine in advance where these faults might be, posing a great risk to anyone within a sight of a drill rig, and maybe even miles away. NY State also gets an occasional earthquake; earthquakes can crack casings, or form new cracks in the existing formation that was fractured, and thereby allow seepage of gas into drinking water. Rock is not solid. It moves. So if any gas drillers out there think they can predict where rock is going to move and how, they should go out to California and help out the folks trying to predict where the next earthquake is going to happen. There is also a recent story about fracking CAUSING earthquakes to happen, so NY State had better take a hard look at this video before it decides any type of high-volume horizontal hydrofracturing is SAFE, both today and in the future when the earth moves.
—A Sustainable Otsego video shot and edited by Jon Manning.
