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This is a link post Flammable tapwater
"Fracking" is apparently rife in the US. It's something to do with companies fracturing rock a mile deep underground to harvest natural gas. Only problem is the gas is now leaking into the water supply with results like these. Not sure I'd want to be glugging that stuff down whilst smoking a Lambert & Butler.

There's loads of vids on youtube of Americans turning their taps into flamethrowers.
(Leemondus, Tue 10 May 2011, 16:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wow I'd heard about fracking but never seen the results. Scary stuff.

(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Tue 10 May 2011, 16:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post What the Frack? (Still need to what the last season of battlestar galactica)
Well it looks like they're doing it here too now.
Mining has started around blackpool.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 10 May 2011, 16:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post watch it!!
ending is abit of a cop out but still fantastic.
 (I helped save b3ta! Captain Pilchard The king of B-movies!, Tue 10 May 2011, 17:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fraking hell
i'd be pissed if my water suppy was polluted with gas
 (I helped save b3ta! Dances with Rabbits Back to Education i go, Tue 10 May 2011, 17:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post They'll probably charge for that!

(I helped save b3ta! Bobod Perpetually following through, Tue 10 May 2011, 17:12, , Reply)
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this is the future, instant cups of tea and coffee.
 (Professor of Lesbonics remembered his password on, Tue 10 May 2011, 18:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post I heard the Thames was once so polluted, you could set fire to spots of it
Or perhaps it was some other river. Either way, it's pretty fucked up.

Yeah, I'd heard of this fracking lark before, but never seen it. Scary stuff, jeez.
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Tue 10 May 2011, 18:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's been a recent CSI episode of late that features a guy getting blown up by something similar

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 10 May 2011, 18:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post I fail to see how
gas gets into the water and when.
According to my pre-GCSE chemistry knowledge you need pressure to get gas into a liquid (I dont mean TURN gas into a liquid) but even if there were the right conditions deep under ground that gas would escape in surface water.
Even if it didn't it would during treatment. Once treated, the water is in a closed system to avoid contamination so it wont pick up any gas unless it can seep through a pipe, in which case how do they transport gas?

Smells eggy to me.
 (Baj does Minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/w92baj, Tue 10 May 2011, 19:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sure but...
The gaz released near to the groundwater has the right conditions to get in the water.
All these people use their own well to the groundwater.
Many farmers use the groundwater directly on the crops.

About the way they get the gaz : They inject a cement that will make the perfect tube to get the main part of the gaz back, but holes in the structure allow the gaz to escape to the environment, and it's only effective after a delay implied by the drying of the cement, which mean a part is lost in the underground.
 (Wespel fried french., Tue 10 May 2011, 21:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post Watch the doco called Gasland.
Australia has banned this practice thank fuck.
 (I helped save b3ta! jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Wed 11 May 2011, 0:27, , Reply)