Source : Mountain Messenger

Excerpt from Peggy Mackenzie’s article in the Mountain Messenger:

We are seeing profit-hungry motivated behavior mount as gas drilling companies scramble for leases in karst country. Like any “gold rush,” the money is so good.  Karst topography is a landscape created by groundwater dissolving sedimentary rock such as limestone, according to the website watersheds.org. Karst makes our Valley especially vulnerable when it comes to drilling.

As information streams in concerning the use of hydraulic fracture drilling for natural gas in the abundantly rich shale fields around the country and especially the Marcellus shale which lies beneath West Virginia and other states in the eastern US, it has been pointed out that natural gas is cleaner that coal and oil. Lawmakers, and members of the oil and gas industry along with the media have jumped on the bandwagon touting natural gas as America’s latest clean energy effort.

But, as Myles Yates of SaveTheWaterTable.org says, “Get it straight: Natural gas extracted by way of hydraulic fracture is NOT clean energy.”

SavetheWaterTable.org is a collective of concerned individuals – endeavoring to prevent hydraulic fracking from contaminating the water supply and irreversibly damaging the ecosystem. Become educated, become aware of the dangers!

They are currently focused on the proposed use of hydraulic fracture in the Marcellus Shale beds of Monroe County, WV – a karst region. The land there is full of caves, sinkholes, vertical seams, and most importantly, an interconnected system of underground water. To fire millions of gallons of toxins under extremely high pressure into the ground – they think that is a very, very bad idea.

Unfortunately, hydraulic fracture has already left behind a wake of documented disaster – in an effort to open the hearts, minds and eyes of our neighbors, our friends, and our leaders – they will use the site to share and distribute information.

Join and support the effort to spread knowledge and to Save the Water Table!