A local waterway has ended up on the list of the country’s most endangered bodies of water, an ignominious blackeye that the granola establishment say is all thanks to Big Frack.
The Grand River, which shimmies up from mid-Ohio before dropping into the lake at Fairport Harbor, was parked at #6 on the annual list complied by American Rivers, according to the News Herald. It’s important to keep in mind that the list isn’t of the dirtiest pieces of H2O in these United States, only the natural bodies most likely to be fouled in the future. The Grand is sandwiched between Wyoming’s Hoback River at #5 and the South Fork Skykomish River in Washington state.
The big befouling sword hanging over the Grand, American Rivers claims, is the possible uptick in hydraulic fracking the natural gas industry is pushing for.
At an announcement event Monday at Hidden Valley Park, Kathryn Hanratty with the Network for Oil and Gas Accountability and Protection said the process damages the river by withdrawing millions of gallons of water and also by polluting it.
“Even when everything goes as planned, toxic fracking fluid blows back at high pressure as part of the process,” Hanratty said. “This routine step has the potential for contaminating fields and streams.”
This article appears in May 9-15, 2012.
I thought that the most-northernly counties in Ohio were poor prospects for hydrofracking. The oil companies would drill elsewhere.
Lake County would likely survive untrammeled.
Oh are you kidding?? Anywhere they THINK there is natural gas they’re gonna frack…
Don’t cha just LOVE that “drill baby drill” shit on on dooshbag bumpers?
This make me so mad. Thanks again to that idiot Kasich. He is determined to line his pockets and turn Ohio into a wasteland!!!
So basically what we have here is tyranny through hysteria. Have you ever noticed how the Left just moves from one crisis to another? Things need to change NOW! We don’t have time to consider do our decisions work. Our good intentions are more important than the hurtful, narrow-minded, solutions we demand. Being on the Left means, never having to say you’re, sorry.