Drilling company spews gas, mud and lies
Of course there are no disasters from natural gas drilling* (in the areas where it’s not done at least).
Here’s a little gem from Indonesia. A drilling company caused a disaster that is putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk. The drillers released a volcano of mud that has created a pool of mud larger than 50 football fields and is threatening to overflow a barrier that would release it to destroy villages and the only rail-line that serves the area.
Yes, the report is from Al Jazeera, which may not be considered the most respected name in political news. There is nothing political in the report, though. I would have rather seen or read the report from an American news outlet, but they don’t report on things like this. Only when it hits here.
Want to wait till hit happens here?
Oh, yeah – one of Indonesia’s most powerful politician’s family owns the drilling company.
* Before the intentionally ignorant say that we’ve had this kind of drilling since the forties, let me remind them (once again) that we are talking about high-density, high-pressure, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, which we have never had in NY state. Read the whole sentence again if you don’t understand that.
