On 5/20/2010 4:50 PM, Rudy R Christian wrote:
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> Something tells me they aren't really more endangered than the Gulf Coast
> from Nawlins eastward.
>
> Rude E
>    
You mean... like this?

MAP–Tompkins - Home http://bit.ly/cQDnn3

The Marcellus Accountability Project for Tompkins County

Gas drilling is coming soon to the Finger Lakes Region. Rumors abound, 
but one thing is sure: in the next few years residents will see a 
dramatic transformation of the local area to a more industrial 
landscape. How many wells will be drilled? How rapidly? Economic 
uncertainty makes answering these questions difficult, but predictions 
range from hundreds to thousands of wells over the next 5 to 20 years.

Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale will be by hydraulic fracturing 
("hydrofracking"). Unlike conventional drilling, hydrofracking involves 
pumping vast amounts of water laced with toxic chemicals into the ground 
under high pressure to fracture the shale. At some sites, loud 
compressors run nonstop to move the gas into a pipeline. The process 
creates all kinds of adverse environmental and health impacts, and has 
triggered outrage and action from citizens groups and even local 
governments throughout the country, wherever it has been used.

The gas industry has spent millions of dollars quietly leasing private 
and public land in our area, and is well-positioned to begin large-scale 
gas extraction. Because of the infrastructure involved (pipelines, 
compressor stations, gas and chemical storage facilities), companies 
prefer to drill thousands of wells systematically throughout an area to 
"fully extract" gas from shale (read: make the most profit).

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