7 Ways Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Buy Positive Public Sentiment for Fracking

EXCERPT:
"Their high-dollar campaign to put a happy face on this risky practice is designed to challenge the growing movement to ban fracking that's heating up across the country."

COMMENT:
The push-back by citizens against this industrial contamination is coast-to-coast and across the globe.  When people's water wells begin bubbling and spewing methane gas after being fracked and can be lit on fire, it is pretty clear that industry is not telling the entire truth about their practices.  But the public is engaging in a strong public campaign and bringing this information forward. Let us also not forget it is not just our water that is getting poisoned by industry.  The air next to oil and gas well development is laden with the chemicals from this industrial process as well.  If we want to keep our Earth healthy for the species that depend upon clean air and water, it is time for industry to step down and out, and for our government to stop endorsing and encouraging fossil fuel extraction.

Wenonah Hauter
August 17, 2011 

Their high-dollar campaign to put a happy face on this risky practice is designed to challenge the growing movement to ban fracking that's heating up across the country.
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Sometimes reality is stranger than science fiction. That's the case with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- a dangerous technology that's much like setting off a giant pipe bomb four or five miles underground. Millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand are injected deep into shale rock formations at high pressures to break open the rock and release the gas.

The promoters say its safe. Or that's what the oil and gas industry would have you think, anyway. But behind the scenes, the industry is fighting tooth and nail to keep fracking unregulated, and its claims of safety, economic prosperity and energy security unquestioned. Their high-dollar campaign to put a happy face on this risky practice is designed to challenge the growing movement to ban fracking that's heating up across the country: people are saying no to this risky technology that, if pursued, will negatively impact our health, water, and economy...continued...