what is even going on

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this one is super long though so uh
do what you will with that information.
(when I say super long I mean like not even 10 paragraphs)
(this is long for me)

( long day/longer night )

The more I think about natural gas shale drilling, the more stressed out I get.

I think it's a combination of the unknown multitude of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, the fact that Pittsburgh is right on top of huge reservoirs of natural gas, that the Monongahela is already being polluted by tributaries that run through the gasfields, that 20 men have breast cancer who have at some point in their lives lived at Camp Lejeune, where the water was found to contain Benzene, an organic chemical compound that has also been found at hydraulic fracturing sites, that even though Pennsylvania currently has a partial moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the new governor and senator are both in the pockets of the Gas companies, that animals are dying from drinking contaminated well water, that gas companies force people affected by drilling to sign nondisclosure agreements, that drilling for natural gas is exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Superfund law.

This isn't just the water of the families in Dimock, PA, where water has to be trucked and piped in regularly because of groundwater contaminated with hydrofracking fluid, the air of the people in Dish and Fort Worth, Texas, where the levels of benzene and other toxic chemicals are far above standard, any of the small towns and farms where the people and animals are getting ill. This is my water, the water of my family and my friends, children and students and adults alike, the water in the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers, which converge into the Ohio, which spills out into the Mississippi. It's the water of everyone in this country, the water of everyone who lives near a shale field. Fresh water only makes up 3% of the water on this planet, and it's being contaminated by completely unregulated chemicals.

The more I learn about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, the more helpless I feel. I don't get a vote, I can't really sign petitions, I can't make inspiring speeches or documentaries or fine scientific evidence to support a ban on fracking. The only thing I can really do is tell people, and hope that those people will care enough to tell their friends, and maybe some of them will pass it on to the people they know, until there are enough people speaking out against unsafe drilling that the government and the gas companies have to listen to us.

This got really long, but. um. TL;DR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IS DANGEROUS AND BAD, TELL YOUR FRIENDS.

TREES.