Water.. Yep, seems simple enough to understand that in all of NASA exploring of any planet or anything like that, water has been the key element to weather that planet can support life.. Not air (oxygen primarily) but water.. We know there is no air on the moon, but recently they have discovered water there.. Life.. Water equals life.. So when they start talking about dumping fracking water, some of the most contaminated water there is on this planet short of the water used to keep nuclear piles under control.. So what could possibly go wrong, I mean they say it is safe, why shouldn't we believe them?? Well yes, I mean they wouldn't LIE to us would they?? They had a discussion recently and had a public hearing about it to allow people to voice their opinion about it and this video was one of the results.. :
Would you drink that sludge?? I wouldn't but we might eventually have to because once the Koch brothers set their minds to polluting an area they go all in until that area is uninhabitable..
So where is this aquifer??? Here from wikipedia :
The
Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow
water table aquifer located beneath the
Great Plains in the
United States. One of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 mi² (450,000 km²) in portions of eight
states: (
South Dakota,
Nebraska,
Wyoming,
Colorado,
Kansas,
Oklahoma,
New Mexico, and
Texas). It was named in 1898 by
N.H. Darton from its
type locality near the town of
Ogallala, Nebraska. The aquifer is part of the
High Plains Aquifer System, and rests on the Ogallala Formation, which is the principal geologic unit underlying 80% of the
High Plains.
About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies
the aquifer, which yields about 30 percent of the ground water used for
irrigation in the United States. Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has
reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%.
Depletion is accelerating, with 2% lost between 2001 and 2009
[2][not in citation given] alone. Once depleted, the aquifer will take over 6,000 years to replenish naturally through rainfall.
There are other aquifers in the country but none are as vital to the area that sits on it like the Ogalalla aquifer.. Supplying drinking water as well as water for crops that supply food to the entire world.. If the water can't be drinkable then likely it won't be a good idea to use on crops either..
When the XL pipeline was being discussed being put in the ground through the aquifer I think it was the main reason such a stink was made.. Yes it was set to go through the sand hills region, and that was bad enough ecology being screwed up, but a leak of that crappy crude oil sludge would contaminate the drinking water as well..
So when they end up allowing this sludge to be dumped in this well it is of the same feeling to me to have the pipeline allowed to go through the state.. Might as well let it all be dumped here.. Nebraska is a fly over state, meaning no one really even considers people to live there and yet there are people here and they aren't any different from those who fly over the state every day.. But in this case they work the ground and are more in the farming business.. And you can't do that everywhere.. If you starve the soil or pollute the crops will cease to grow.. The Kochs will starve and die just like everyone else.. There will be no running to the nearest habitable planet because we can't even leave the planet we are polluting.. We are over a hundred years fro just leaving to go to a planet that barely supports life in Mars... Let alone going to another planet out of our solar system.. And yet we pollute it like we have a life raft planet somewhere.. WE DON'T.. Hopefully they won't be allowed to dump their sludge here.. But I bet they will..
Badge Henry
(P.S. The brilliance of the video presentation where the guy pours the "sludge" into the cups there, and at the end picks up his cup and the bottle water and makes the statement "I don't have enough hands to carry the other cups".. That to me is brilliant because they will truck all this crap in and leave it all behind, just like he did.. Only thing is that is easily cleaned up, whereas the shit the will be doing to our water supply will be closer to permanent...)
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