Sights and Sounds of Natural Gas

It’s easy to dismiss the impact of noise pollution as “whining” or “complaining”…. until you’ve heard it. It’s hard to dismiss decibels like this:

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Try getting your kids to go to sleep with that kind of racket. The good news is that this level of noise only lasts 3-4 weeks.  Bad news is that there will probably be multiple wells per pad… and you can only drill one at a time.

Every step of the prep and drilling process is noisy – even the completed wells and ancillary equipment make their own kind of noise:

Imagine having that outside your bedroom window!  CineplexRex has an amazing collection of videos.  I encourage you to check them all out!

Oh, and compressor stations are loud, too. Don’t forget that the compressor stations are “part” of a pipeline, so all that arguing over eminent domain and pipelines includes seizing your land and parking a station like this on it.

Good times at 2:10.

Get your marshmallows and nomex: flares, flares everywhere!

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Whoopsiedaisy.  Blowout:

This is called “recycling”.  Wastewater is allowed to sit out, fester and evaporate in the sun (makes it easier to inhale, that way) so that it can be reused in another frac job.  Recycling works best when it is a neighborhood affair – as you can tell.

The rest of the big fracking mess:

Note the life preserver on the fence.  Ironic?  I daresay, yes!

This is what apologists are talking about when they say “Accidents are inevitable.”  So let’s see a show of hands:  Who is surprised that our lakes and creeks have an oily sheen?  That the eddys are full of suds?  That fish are floating up dead and cattle are dropping like flies?  Really, it’s not rocket science.