Late Night Video — My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)
In the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock, Jay Rosen and his graduate school class (Journalism) at NYU teamed up with Pro-Publica to produce this nicely done musical explainer of hydraulic Fracking for natural gas:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4[/youtube]
(h/t Time Magazine)
There is an estimated $1 trillion in natural gas in the Marcellus shale. PA is in the process allowing fracking to turn the state into a poisoned shit hole for peanuts because everyone up there thinks that they’ve won the lottery.
I’ve seen it firsthand. The liberal survivalplex is in Susquehanna county and I cant ell you that two years ago everyone said, “Oh that ground water poisoning is out west in Wyoming. They’ll have it worked out by the time they start pumping here.”
Last year they said, “That’s all out west in Tioga county. They’ll have it worked out by the time they start drilling here.”
Now they say, “”That’s all out west in Bradford county. They’ll have it worked out by the time they start drilling here.”