Water

[irishbobcat]

Amen sister! Amen! As Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's the way it is"....

[Towntalk]

There is an old saying that goes like this: "He who eats my bread sings my song!" and to paraphrase it: "He who takes my dough does what I tell him to do or else!"

[irishbobcat]

The leases are not iron-clad.....fracking companies will be able to find some neo-con, pro-fracking
judge to eventually side with them.....

One only has to look to a smiliar situation earlier this month in PA where a judge ruled in favor of
a fracking company based on the fracking conpany's declaration that the water was safe to drink:

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Gas Company That Contaminated 18 Wells Through Fracking Refuses To Continue Providing Clean Water To Residents
By Tanya Somanader on Dec 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm

As Republican lawmakers rush headlong to open up land to fracking, their constituents should heed the cautionary tale told by the town of Dimock, Pennsylvania. The small town of 1,400 people agreed to let Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Company employ hydraulic fracturing on local land to obtain natural gas in 2008. The result: 18 water wells contaminated with methane.

Dimock residents' water "started turning brown and making them sick, on woman's water well spontaneously combusted, and horses and pets mysteriously began to lose their hair." What's more, the value of the land the residents lived on plummeted. The situation deteriorated so badly that by 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) fined Cabot, shut down several of the wells, and required the company to permanently provide drinking water to 11 families in Dimock.

But this Wednesday, Cabot told Dimock residents that they're officially on their own. Cabot ended daily deliveries of clean water this week, asserting that "Dimock's water is safe to drink." DEP gave Cabot permission last month to stop paying for the water, and a judge, who sits on the state's Environmental Hearing Board, "declined to issue an emergency order compelling Cabot to continue the deliveries." Now, Dimock families are left in a lurch, many unable to afford the provisions that run as high as $100 a day.

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As long as you have individuals with power that side with the pro-fracking industry our water and land will always be in danger of being
contaminated by the poisons and toxins involved in the fracking process.

Accidents will continue to happen, and the common man will never be adequately compensated for the damages that will take a lifetime to
clean up.

Pro-fracker are only concerned about making as much profit as they can off of this project. Making monetary compensations for poisoned land and
water cuts into their profits....and they surely will find judges and courts will will rule in their favor.

Once again, big corporate business will screw the little man....and neo-cons have no problem with this trend continuing.

[Towntalk]

Lease will protect Valley landowners from water contamination

http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/dec/29/lease-helps-to-protect-landowners-from-w/

The big question is, are these leases so iron clad that the can't be broken by some crooked shyster lawyer, or some scoundrel crook of a judge?

The Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley and its attorneys have developed a lease that will help protect the water of thousands of residents throughout the Mahoning Valley.
The lease requires drillers to test water — and replace water if any contamination happens after drilling begins.
The lease calls for drilling companies to test a landowner's water before and after drilling. The driller pays for all testing costs and must share the results with the landowner.