Lets stop Fracking!

[FrackingKaroo]

For anyone who doesn't know What is Fracking I've just made a website about it. (you can read why. On the site so there's no use in me repeating that here) the url is: http://www.frackingkaroo.co.za

More importantly I'd like to raise the issue of Fracking in South Africa

Have you heard of fracking?
Do you know what it is?
Do you know about the environmental effects of fracking?
Do you know the effects on human health?
Have you considered doing anything about it?
Do you have anything constructive to add?

Thanks

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To the moderators:
I know this is my first post and I'm posting a link. But this is not SPAM. It is not a money making thing. I am sharing this for the benefit of everyone who lives in South Africa.

 

[DJ...]

You can start here - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/463987-Article-No-fracking-for-now and here - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/450231-Fracking-in-the-Karoo-why-it-s-bad

 

[biometrics]

I could do with a good frack.

 

[JStrike]

The poster is probably Jonathan Deal.
If you want to see something funny, you should read how Ivo Vegter has time after time destroyed the misinformation that he spreads.

 

[Bismuth]

Fracking h@ll, what spam is this?



B

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Are swearing BSG style now?

 

[Ninja'd]

You better fracking believe it.


I'm not saying we should abstain from fracking ( or making love or whatever) altogether but to use your better judgment and protection

 

[TehStranger]

Strong username to post content OP.

 

[Midnight_choir_drunk]

I'm very pro fracking. Why are people butt hurt about the desert ?

Use it or lose it.

 

[guest2013-1]

I've read most of the articles and watched doccies both pro and con, and from what I've seen, I don't see fracking being much of an issue at all. Now compare what we do to the earth on a daily basis otherwise... well... yea

 

[JStrike]

I've read most of the articles and watched doccies both pro and con, and from what I've seen, I don't see fracking being much of an issue at all. Now compare what we do to the earth on a daily basis otherwise... well... yea

Yep. It has it's risks, as do all things, but these are easily managed, and the benefits are truly big.
Absolutely not an area where you want extreme ideology playing a part

 

[grim]

Have you heard of fracking? Yes
Do you know what it is? yes
Do you know about the environmental effects of fracking? The BS tinfoil facts or real facts?
Do you know the effects on human health? See above
Have you considered doing anything about it? Support them, cheaper energy/fuels for us.
Do you have anything constructive to add? Go somewhere else?

 

[Nerfherder]

Seeing as Fracking could free us from importing oil I am quite interested in it.

Its worth taking a look at.

 

[abandonallhope]

RAS

 

[dualmeister]

Have you heard of fracking?

Yes. It is from Battlestar Galactica

 

[bionic_twiglet]

Done a lot of thinking and reading on this and definitely in Ivo Vegter's camp on this one.

All the risks around fracking (and I agree there are some) can be overcome with sensible regulation and good technology.

The potential benefits far outweigh the risks.

I don't have time for privileged, well-off, mainly white environmental paranoiacs who don't have the foresight to see that this could be extremely beneficial for our nation and lift many out of poverty.

To sum it up: cautiously pro-fracking.

 

[Nerfherder]

Done a lot of thinking and reading on this and definitely in Ivo Vegter's camp on this one.

All the risks around fracking (and I agree there are some) can be overcome with sensible regulation and good technology.

The potential benefits far outweigh the risks.

I don't have time for privileged, well-off, mainly white environmental paranoiacs who don't have the foresight to see that this could be extremely beneficial for our nation and lift many out of poverty.

To sum it up: cautiously pro-fracking.

Yep... they are happy to carry on driving cars and using coal/uranium powered electricity... but fracking is an issue for them.

 

[ginggs]

Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide

The same wells that energy companies drill to extract natural gas from shale formations could become repositories to store large quantities of carbon dioxide. A new computer model suggests that wells in the Marcellus shale, a 600-sq-mile formation in the northeastern U.S. that is a hotbed for gas extraction, could store half the CO2 emitted by the country’s power plants from now until 2030.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/09/Fracked-Shale-Sequester-Carbon-Dioxide.html

 

[Bismuth]

Are swearing BSG style now?

Frack yes!

B

 

[STS]

For anyone who doesn't know What is Fracking I've just made a website about it. (you can read why. On the site so there's no use in me repeating that here) the url is: http://www.frackingkaroo.co.za

More importantly I'd like to raise the issue of Fracking in South Africa

Have you heard of fracking?
Do you know what it is?
Do you know about the environmental effects of fracking?
Do you know the effects on human health?
Have you considered doing anything about it?
Do you have anything constructive to add?

Thanks

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To the moderators:
I know this is my first post and I'm posting a link. But this is not SPAM. It is not a money making thing. I am sharing this for the benefit of everyone who lives in South Africa.

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