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It’s not enough that they won’t tell us what is in the fracking fluid, or that they may be poisoning the watershed and everyone with a well in the area may no longer be able todrink their water, but now they came up with this BRILLIANT and CUNNING plan to destroy our tap water:

Opponents of a proposed natural gas frack water recycling plant in Warwood inundated City Council Chambers Tuesday in hopes of keeping the facility out of their neighborhood.

Last month, Houston, Texas-based GreenHunter Water announced plans to build a treatment facility for fracking wastewater at the former site of Seidler’s Oil Service on North 28th Street, located just over a mile upstream of Wheeling’s water treatment plant, where the company plans to be working by September.

Dave Cupp, who owns a business on North 28th Street, said he is in favor of job growth, but not at what he sees as the expense of the public’s well-being.

Why, nothing could go wrong with a fracking treatment facility only a mile from the intake for the water treatment plan that serves the entire region. Smashing good plan, chaps!

I’m speechless.

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  2. 2.

    Trollhattan

    Let’s see, checking my playbook, yep, here it is: Fracking–good. Fluoridation–bad, horrible gummint plot.

    Glad they’ve cleared that up for me.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Last month, Houston, Texas-based GreenHunter Water announced plans to build a treatment facility for fracking wastewater at the former site of Seidler’s Oil Service on North 28th Street, located just over a mile upstream of Wheeling’s water treatment plant, where the company plans to be working by September.

    The should put a fertilizer plant in between to act as a buffer.

  4. 4.

    Violet

    I think it’s all a plot by soft drink manufacturers to make you buy their bottled water.

  5. 5.

    Ben Franklin

    What could possibly trump the need for energy independy? We got gas and we got da pipeline. It’s all good.

  6. 6.

    gene108

    David Cupp is a greedy communist. I hope he rots in hell.

    Job creators gotta create, so they can’t hesitate
    To deal with your stupid ass worries David Cupp

    What could go wrong? Who cares, someone made a profit and that’s all that matters.

  7. 7.

    Lurking Canadian

    Don’t worry. Once the first ten thousand children spontaneously combust, the business will naturally fail due to the ineffable magic of the marketplace.

  8. 8.

    Birthmarker

    It’s their world, JC. We just live in it…

    Nothing will change until we get money out of politics, which is not even a part of the national conversation.

  11. 11.

    sonofsamantha

    Would not be surprised to see a post from Cole tomorrow complaiing about his natural gas bill.

    Assuming you use nat gas you are a hypocrit to bitch about fracking just like you are a hypocrit to bitch about oil pipelines if you drive.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    Looked up the company. Their website and their stock info on Google says they’re based in Grapevine, TX, which is north of Dallas. Not quite sure how the article got them based in Houston, Texas. Not that it makes that big of a deal, but it seems like a pretty easy thing to check and they got it wrong. Maybe the crew working in Wheeling works out of Houston or something?

  14. 14.

    qwerty42

    Job Creators!
    Freedom!
    I think that about covers the pro-put-lethal-chemicals-in-the-water group.

  17. 17.

    Short Bus Bully

    Is it ACTUALLY written in the constitution that tap water should be free? Ask Scalia. See, we all collectively shit in the watershed so all potable water must be bought at the store.

    This is how Adam Smith and Ayn Rand would want it.

  19. 19.

    Marc

    Is there some rule requiring all threads to feature a poster attacking Obama, regardless of relevance?

  20. 20.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @scav: I don’t use natural gas and Pat McCrory is about to sell off fracking rights to the highest bidder when the majority of the Eastern part of the State relies on an aquifer, yeah nothing could go wrong there.

  22. 22.

    Trollhattan

    This aerial from the southern Salinas Valley sums up, for me, the next great battle line of the century.

    https://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+ardo,+ca&hl=en&ll=35.966232,-120.860553&spn=0.032546,0.065875&sll=35.968281,-120.880337&sspn=0.001017,0.002059&t=h&hnear=San+Ardo,+Monterey,+California&z=15

    Depleted oil field to the south, irrigated cropland to the north. There’s water enough (all imported) for either fracking or irrigating, but not both. Who wins this battle?

  23. 23.

    Another Halocene Human

    Bless you West Virginians, FSM knows you need it. A friend of my who is a WV native calls WV the nicest people cursed by being on top of coal and gas.

  25. 25.

    cmorenc

    @Birthmarker:

    Nothing will change until we get money out of politics, which is not even a part of the national conversation.

    West Virginia, where the proposed fracking water recyling plant would be located, is the state whose political control is most notoriously dominated by the resource industry, from the legislature to the courts. Take Don Blankenship, recent former CEO of Massey Energy Company for example, whose notorieties include his company’s callous-to-worker-safety handling of the Upper Big Branch Mine (resulting in a disasterous explosion that trapped and killed 29 miners). But he is also notorious for his heavy-handed meddling in judicial politics, giving $3 million in financial support to a WVa Supreme Court candidate (Brent Benjamin) against then-incumbent Warren McGraw, at the same time Blankenship had high-stakes litigation before the court. Benjamin won the election and was on-board the court in deciding the case in Blankenship’s favor by a 3-2 margin.

    And that’s just one example.

  26. 26.

    Trollhattan

    @cmorenc:

    Why aren’t Blankenship and Dick Cheney in the dock on murder charges? They’re both responsible, if not accountable for many needless deaths, yet are punished with lavish golden parachutes.

  27. 27.

    JR in WV (almost)

    It isn’t hypocrisy to want plants located with common sense, like NOT siting a potentially explosive factory in a neighborhood with nursing homes and schools and residences, and not placing facilities with potentially drastic substances in the area where drinking water for whole communities is handled.

    Using best standards and practices in dealing with dangerous industrial processes is only common sense, something which many commenters of the rightward slant seem utterly lacking.

  29. 29.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Trollhattan: If only they were real parachutes, spun from gold, and they were shoved out of a plane with nothing else to rely on.

  30. 30.

    sonofsamantha

    Haydnseek: Ok I’ll bite. If you don’t like it you can grow your own or buy organic. Also, didn’t your mom teach you to always wash your vegetables before cooking/eating them?

    Nice try. Maybe you will do better next time.

  31. 31.

    Ben Franklin

    @Trollhattan:

    Why aren’t Blankenship and Dick Cheney in the dock on murder charges?

    Is that snark? I am struggling to see how that would happen.

  35. 35.

    Roger Moore

    @Birthmarker:

    Nothing will change until we get money out of politics, which is not even a part of the national conversation.

    Show me any place ever that has successfully gotten money out of politics. As long as the government is spending money, there will be money in politics.

  36. 36.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @sonofsamantha:

    If you do’’t like it you can grow your own or buy organic. Also, didn’t your mom teach you to always wash your vegetables before cooking/eating them?

    Says he/she/it in a thread devoted to discussion of polluted water coming out of the tap, and the consequences thereof.

    As own-goals go, this one is a work of art. It takes a certain level of genius to boot yourself in the ass with this kind of style.

  38. 38.

    weaselone

    I’m certain that if people end up getting poisoned the fracking company will sue them for theft.

  40. 40.

    Randy P

    @Marc: That’s pretty much a rule of the entire internet. Check the comments section of any online news article about, well, anything.

  41. 41.

    Ben Franklin

    @weaselone:

    The water is patented and trademarked for proprietary purposes.

    Using it without permission or royalties will result in jail time.

  46. 46.

    James E. Powell

    Here’s a prediction in which I feel a great degree confidence: by the time the general public becomes aware of the ecological damage from fracking and the corporate entities that did it, the people who made money off it and the money will be long gone. The people will demand that Big Government clean it up, fix it up, make it all better without raising taxes on any rich people because Job Creators. Also too, Obama and liberals will be blamed.

  50. 50.

    sm*t cl*de

    Opponents of a proposed natural gas frack water recycling plant in Warwood inundated City Council Chambers

    I was expecting a literal inundation. Nothing in the article about floods. I am disappoint.

  51. 51.

    les

    Gaslands should be playing on a major cable channel 24/7, until this fucking country learns to think. Supported by ads for pitchforks, tar and feathers.

  52. 52.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    I’m so slow that I can’t understand how the fracking companies are able to pump that stuff into the ground pretty much wherever they please without being forced to reveal the composition of what they’re pumping.I can’t even license my car without having it smog checked to ensure that it doesn’t pollute the air.
    If there’s no applicable regulation on the books there should be. I’m thinking that the lack of same is just more proof that we have the best government that money can buy.

  54. 54.

    Chris T.

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    I can’t understand how the fracking companies are able to pump that stuff into the ground pretty much wherever they please without being forced to reveal the composition of what they’re pumping.

    They got a Special Exemption put in for them after holding secret meetings with Cheney.

  56. 56.

    Birthmarker

    @cmorenc: We could have had an individual, or a small group of individuals, buy themselves a president this last go round.

    @Roger Moore: But the US seems to be bringing it to a fine art.

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: My understanding is that Halliburton, who invented the process, is prevented by law to be sued for any damages from the process. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. (Too lazy to google right now.)

  58. 58.

    TenguPhule

    So our Senate is governed by Chaos, the Free markets and Frackers by the Orks, the House of Reps is full of Goddamned Necrons and our only hope is the Tau Occupy Wall Street.

    Is that about it?

  60. 60.

    Narcissus

    Having consumed the environment and the public sphere, our unrestrained capitalism now turns its eyes on the untapped vein of wealth that is the future.

  64. 64.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @sonofsamantha:

    There must be a fire somewhere you can find to die in, shitstain.

    Find it. Shouldn’t be difficult…just open the taps near a fracking site and you’ve got your fire.

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