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Zebra Frac Water

03/13/2015 5:19 PM

Here is a tidbit I found that might be of interest to this blog:

" Our system will help address the customer's productivity needs, treating river water coming from West Virginia for use at a fracking site 50 miles away in Ohio. The system will prevent zebra mussel formation, which occurs when the temperature rises in warmer months; it is against regulations to transport zebra mussels over state lines."

From my company's newsletter.

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03/13/2015 5:51 PM

So after taking West Virginia water and contaminating it by fracking in Ohio, do they use it to kill the Zebra Mussels?

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03/13/2015 6:22 PM

I didn't know people ate zebras anyway, or that Ohio was so far from West Virginia!

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03/13/2015 6:30 PM

I'm all for eradicating Zebras.

I don't think contaminating 5 million gallons of fresh water under thousands of PSI to frack a well we don't need is worth the damage to the water, nor the earth as it's pumped back down into waste water wells.

That's just my opinion.

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03/13/2015 7:30 PM

I share your opinion, but what about the shiny happy commercial about fracking being our salvation? Was all that promotion wasted on you? The very fact that the infomercial was produced raises a red flag, but that is just my opinion. I here corpspeak about how water is crucial and that "We as an organization, should donate our time and resources to providing safe water in third world countries" Blah,Blah.

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03/13/2015 7:54 PM

Against Regulations,... If caught, they hitch a ride on boats, a lot of lakes in Wisconsin have zebra mussels

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03/15/2015 6:13 AM

"Tis an ill wind that blows noone any good".

I saw the great lakes in the 1970's,and the pollution was terrible:

An oil slick as far as you could see from shore.

The Zebra mussels have cleaned it up.You can now see 20 feet or more deep.

Old timers say it is the clearest they have ever seen the water.

The main complaint about the Zebra mussels is from the power companies that have

problems with the clogging of their intakes.

Technology will eventually prevail with a non-stick coating.

Insofar as displacing the native species,that is simply the pot calling the kettle

black;the native species were being wiped out by polllution,so I think it is the lesser

of two evils.

As for fracking,the long term dangers are unknown.

Mini-quakes have been detected near fracking sites,but even this may be beneficial in

the long run,releasing stress before the big ones can develop.

Or perhaps it may have the opposite effect.

Only time will tell.

(Perhaps they should try it along the Saint Andreas Fault ).

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03/15/2015 11:20 AM

Saint who fault?

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03/15/2015 12:10 PM

San Andreas fault.

It's located in Calefornia.

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03/15/2015 11:08 PM

We could only pray Andreas was a but he/she is the Demon herself!

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03/24/2015 10:46 AM

When flexing these mussels from W. Virginia to Ohio, they surely will choose the lesser of two weavels. I don't have a problem with fracking if it reduces the amount of money ISIS, certain despots get from oil production to fund their murderous wars.

The real problem is not the environment. It will change, re-cycle itself, evolve, etc. It is the human race that should be concerned with extinction if certain powers get their way - and I am not referring to oil companies. I am referring to the impending nuclear holocaust, and how every day we do nothing to shut down Iran's centrifuges (it may already be too late), puts the world that much closer to nuclear midnight.

Last one alive, please write this all down on copper plates in case some other form of intelligent life evolves to fill our lost place.

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