Alternative Energy Video: Poland is Going to Fracking Hell, is America Next?

Published on August 2nd, 2013 | by Jo Borrás

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Video: Poland is Going to Fracking Hell, is America Next?

Poland is Fracking Hell

In recent years, the fiercely independent people of Poland have found themselves caught up in the global hunt for natural resources. In this case, it’s natural gas, and the chemical fracking that companies are using to produce it is sending the country to “fracking hell”, according to the documentary film-makers at Journeyman Pictures.

In the US, unregulated fracking has been linked to cancer, water pollution, sinkholes, and even earthquakes and other “seismic events“. Poland, too, is facing these problems. Like their American counterparts, too, Polish farmers and landowners are being bullied to sell to crooked looters and “exploration services” companies.

In the words of one Polish farmer, one company threatened him with expropriation, fines, and “other things” if he maintained his unwillingness to sell and/or allow the exploration company to pull gas from his land.

It’s a nasty scene, and one that – to Americans – is all too familiar. You can check out the video for yourself, below.

 

Source: Journeyman Pictures.



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  • curly4

    Video: Poland is Going to Fracking Hell, is America Next?

    Well fracking has been done for will over 40 years now. There has not been any major problem caused by it. If Poland is going to fracking hell the US would already be there. This is a lot of to do about nothing.

    • Jo Borras

      Large parts of America remain relatively untouched, and our citizenship is far less educated than Poland’s, by and large. Believe me, we’re nowhere near fracking hell – but we will be, if the gas companies get their way!

  • Corlia

    Actually, fracking does exist in the US, and there is plenty of evidence freely available on the Internet from reputable sources that strongly suggests links to contaminated ground water and air pollution as well as pipeline leaks, ruptures, and explosions. Even if fracking operations do not leak, rupture, or explode, they render millions of gallons of water each day undrinkable because of chemical contamination and radiation. Fracked water has been injected underground for storage, (because it can’t be used by humans, animals, or on crops) and studies have linked this practice to earthquakes. In at least seven states where fracking is happening, there are major droughts, and farmers are having to compete with fracking operations for water.
    Just Google it. It is out there if you really want to know.

    • Jo Borras

      Yes, it does! As the 3 articles I wrote about Fracking in the US (linked to in THIS article) clearly indicate.

      I think you just read headlines or something?

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