I just posted a video of Senator James Inhofe and his statements on the pro-drilling side of the debate; this video of Theo Colborn is almost a rebuttal of many of Inhofe’s points.
Once again for those of you who don’t like videos longer than 5 minutes I’ll sum it up:
· Theo Colborn is an renown environmentalist who was pretty much the first person to delve into the harmful effects of hydraulic fracturing and onshore drilling
· If you are fracking in the New York watershed area you will be using 3 to 8 million tons of water during the process that could be toxically contaminated
· “Beauty” of fracking is that there aren’t as many perforations on the surface.
· Westin Wilson works at the EPA and openly questioned the EPA study that declared fracking “to be little or no threat to drinking water” (this is the document Sen. Inhofe cited)
· Wilson said that the administrator if the EPA was being pressured by many politicians to exempt fracking
· A few months later Congress exempted fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act which doesn’t require the oil companies to release specifics about chemicals and methods used to drill and frack.
· Colborn created a list a 944 chemicals that have been found to be used by oil companies
· Colborn emphasizes that 30 to 70% of the produced toxic water comes back up and we just don’t know at all where much of it goes
The main point of Theo Colborn’s argument is that we have proof that many harmful toxic chemicals are used during drilling but no proof that it is all being cleaned properly.
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