Fracking is Dangerous: The High Cost of Cheap Gas | ENDEVR Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2020
- Fracking is Dangerous: The High Cost of Cheap Gas | Investigative Documentary from 2013
The High Cost of Cheap Gas has been translated into seven languages and has been seen in over 48 countries around the world. The film has won numerous awards including the LA Independent Film Festival, Envirofilm, an International Award of Merit and others.
Directed, written and presented by Jeffrey Barbee
Produced By Mira Dutschke and Jeffrey Barbee
Associate Producer Charles Moore
Released in 2015, check out it’s IMBD page here: www.imdb.com/title/tt4901388/
The official website of the film with official posters, links and more exciting information: tinyurl.com/46w96d7h
What is it about?
Natural Gas development has come to Southern Africa. This ground-breaking project uncovers how the oil and gas industry is quietly invading one of the most pristine places on the planet. Reserves and national wildlife parks are not safe from these developments, which threaten the existence of Africa’s last remaining traditional people and wildlife. In this film we bring the voices of the scientists, experts and people opposing un-abated oil and gas development in the USA to Southern Africa so that the region’s natural wealth may be protected for generations to come by the best scientific data
available. Deep in the Kalahari desert our team filmed secret hy-draulic fracturing (fracking) operations across the migration routes of Africa’s largest single elephant population. 44,000 elephants pass between Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe and Chobe National Park in Botswana. The migration route is a tenuous and delicate string of sweet-waterpans in the dry desert. We have evidence and undercover interviews of newly fracked gas wells already endangering these ancient elephant routes.
Who we are:
Director Jeffrey Barbee is an award winning investigative journalist and film maker focusing on groundbreaking environmental and science issues around the world. Numerous newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic, The Guardian and others commission his writing.
His website: www.jeffbarbee.com
Producer Mira Dutschke is an award winning film producer working on social and environmental filmmaking, investigating how human rights can inform environmental laws and policies and using the media as an advocacy tool. Ms Dutschke has a master’s degree in Human Rights Law and 10 years of research experience in South Africa, Northern Ireland and the United States.
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It’s crazy we tolerate this enormous damages from natural gas power but we couldn’t tolerate one accident from nuclear power plants.
Nuclear Fission is the way to go until Nuclear Fusion is a Reality.
Well with level of advocated awareness about the durration of nuclear accidents. It is simple to see why public opinion is abysmally low. Having worked in the oil feilds, I will tell you there is alot room for spilage and alot effort put into clean up and containment. Also, most land owners that lease the space of operations tend to be very unhappy with the activities on their land. It's a variety of things like workers leaving gates open, spills, trampled crops, someone made eye contact with the bull.
Cuz there hasn't been a natural gas bomb
Its as with everything else --- its all about MONEY. How much money can a company make in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of investment and expenses !
Based on these, companies could care less about anything else such as environment, local economic damages, property infringments, etc...They will strip out as much money as possible
until either the resource runs out or opposition becomes so great it becomes no longer worth their investment to continue. This is pretty much the basic foundation of any/all businesses
in both capitalism and socialism/communist economies....Simply no one, especially the corporations want to admit this is all and politicians will continue to ride the fence line, always
siding on the corporation side, well, until the corporate money funnel to the politicians starts drying up, then they may turn on them, but as long as the money flows and politicians are
getting their cuts, whether its directly or indirectly all this will simply continue....
True
The profit motive is the problem but it is not the same under different economic systems. Socialism at least in theory combines private and public corporations in the best interest of the public. Certain industries best serve the public when the profit motive is eliminated such as healthcare, education, public transportation, prisons and environmentally sensitive energy production. The profit motive is about short term profits with no regard for the effect on the future environment or economy.
Sad truth . No, tragic.
@@harrowgateguy communism is the most evil system on earth.
@@abhinavsrivastava8615 during the Cold War people were told communism is authoritarianism but that is not part of it at all. It is the only system based on fairness and equality and much more compatible with democracy than capitalism.
People have no problem with human extinction so long as their stock portfolio doesn’t go down!
Completely insane!
Sad but true
Stock mkt is the root of all evil
"yes we destroyed the world.. but for one beautiful moment in time the shareholders made a killing on the stock market"
People need to go extinct, look around its nothing but evil controlling everything
I wish we make the CEOs and other leaders and their families drink the reclaimed water daily as long as they have their jobs. They should follow what they want for others.
Nothing like that will ever happen because people are lazy to act, they can only show emotions online.
You realize they lease this land from the people when it’s not on federal land. In a lot of cases it’s the land owners choice. Do your research. The pipe is thousands of feet below the aquifers. Also the lease holders are paid very very well. Don’t here a soul out here complaining. They’re making stacks.
@@dillontscheu8717 at the same time there property becomes unsellable, not able to obtain property insurance and most if all in most cases parts of the concrete casings cracks and contaminates the ground water....so no the money isn't that great
Why? Don’t you pay them to do it?
THEY WONT NEED TO, THEIR GRAND KIDS AND GREAT GRAND KIDS WILL HAVE THE PLEASURE- KNOWING THEIR FAMILY KNEW BETTER AND DID NOTHING EXCEPT EXTRACTING DOUGH OUT OF THE GROUND.. POISONING THEIR PROGENY ALL FOR MONEY, FOR MANY MANY MANY MANY YEARS TO COME.
We may live to regret fracking because of the contaminantion of dwindling water supplies.
In an era of increasing drought and diminishing fresh water supplies everywhere, it comes down to which is more valuable, oil (gas) or water?
And I was talking about the US! In places like South Africa and Botswana it's an unmitigated disaster.
It is so heavily subsidized - it is unclear whether or not would it remain economical if the subsidies are cancelled!
Perhaps now with the depression in oil prices after covid, but soon ecomomies will scale up and oil prices will rise.
DO NOT LET AN OIL COMPANY do anything on your land!! THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF WITH A SMILE!!
They bribe local land owners then pay them less than promised and leave them with water faucets that will act like flame throwers when a ignited with a match because so much gas gets into the ground water.
Damn...that’s hard to hear. In my country land owners become millionaires.especially farmers who lease land. They end up with two or three jump jacks with a fence around their well. Usually enough to fit a decent sized truck in it and some tanks, and that’s it. They collect a percentage of every single barrel that comes out of the well on top of what’s paid for a company to lease their land and they continue to farm.
This would do a lot better without an ad every 3 minutes. Its too bad because I really wanted to watch this.
Yeah I agree. There's like 20 ads in this one video.
Slide to the end an click replay n the ads are gone
get ad blocker. works great
Dont expect it to be banned corporations rule the world. So sit tight and inhale/drink/eat gas.
Its all bushes fault tbh
Its difficult to hear with the background music. Otherwise, very informative.
What do you drive? A 2 tonne machine. How do you heat your home. Ask yourself who is the problem.
Don't worry we will find something to burn. Only a matter of time till is open season on Antarctica Alaska and Greenland. Then there is the Russians with all their methane escaping from the now melting permafrost.
You don't have to depend on has to heat your home. We have electric heat strips and heat pumps that use the air and ground source and water heat uts not always about gas plus we have solar heat and solar power
more than half of all us electric is generated using natural gas. Just a longer tail pipe.
Fracking in & of itself isn’t a bad practice. It’s all of the d@mned chemicals being used that can be absolutely disastrous. I’m not an environmentalist or a “tree hugger.” I have no axe to grind either way. I’m just a crusty old fart who’s been around longer than most & has experienced more than some.
My love to you all!!
🇺🇸Grandpa🇺🇸
Btw, I’m also a very conservative old fart. We should ALL work together!!
If it really wasn't for all that chemicals and going so far down they need to do something bout that
Iv worked on a frac crew for years. Most of the chemicals are harmless and you have most of them in your house right now. Like the dish soap (surfactants) or disinfectant (biocide) or even in the foods you eat (guar) and the very few that aren't too good for you and almost never used anymore and are only used in very small amounts.
@@andrewbrown2073 What about the heavy metals in the waste water?
In the US this is why we don't have government health care. If you get sick from drinking toxic waters you pay for your own health care and deal with all the fallout. We need to turn up the volume and make it deafening to our leaders.
I live is Colorado where there is lots of fracking for natural gas extraction. There thing about fracking extraction is that it much less environmentally damaging than older non-fracting extraction methods. Instead of being scattered all over the land scape frack extraction concentrates the drilling in small drilling pads. Each fracked well also replaced what use to be 50 or more non-fracked wells. The effect is much less eviromential damage and where there are misshapes clean up and containment is much easier. It's not that improvements can't be made. Instead of water propane can be use as a fracking fluid. This eliminates the problems with water based fracking fluids. Up front cost is higher but the propane used is recovered at the end of the process, the resulting wells produce more gas, last longer such that propane fracked wells, in the end, are more profitable than water fracked wells. Propane fracking is also safer than water fracking as propane fracking fluids can be formulated to be non-flammable and non-spillable. In my opinion instead of complaining about fracking per se I think the issue should be the use of water when a cleaner and safer material is available in the from of propane.
By limiting the fluids involved, we could also limit the amount of spillage when handling the fluid and maintaining the well. When an excess of fluid exceeds the casing pressures ability to push fluid. A swab rig comes out to 'plunger' out fluid so the well can again be in equilibrium. During this maintenance alot of human error can occur. In short, reducing the need to handle fluid also reduces the opportunities for spilage.
The only conflicts I could think of is instance where the contractors who own and operate the rigs on Anadarko's wells have conflict of interest. We had a older guy who would supervise and coordinate the contractors on the companies behalf. This man also had his own contracted rigs operating on the wells, I suppose he was securing his own income with his position.
Propane is more expensive than water, that's why nobody is doing this.
@@SteffiReitsch the propane does cost more but it all comes back and is reusable for the next frack. Using propane also results higher and longer yields from each well. Using water actually damages the strata that produces the oil and gas from the fracking. Propane does not do this. Since the chemicals use with propane stay underground there is also much less risk of environmental contamination. While initially more expensive propane extraction actually is a more profitable way to frack. Don't take my word for it do your own checking. Personally in water short places like where I live I think it should be required.
@@stanleytolle416 So if it's so much better why aren't they using it?
@@SteffiReitsch it costs about 40% more at first and the rigs have to get set up for it. There is also a company that has developed a nonflammable liquid propane fracking fluid addressing the issue of fire danger from using propane. I would say it's a get rich quick mentality that's causing the adoption problem. Adoption of the process was greatly slowed by crash of gas prices during the pandemic. Right now drillers are rebuying all their equipment that they scrapped just a few years ago. The push is to get as many rigs going as fast as possible. This can be done by going the cheapest way to frack.
Brilliant piece. Thank you.
Thank for preparing an updated Video on the Frack Issue as it could be undertaken in South Africa. This is very well planned video. Keep the good work up.
Not 3 minutes into video, read some comments while ad was playing.
I can tell you for a fact that fracking is causing massive damage to the environment.
Even if it was the cleanest method in the World to extract, it is causing problematic shifting.
Look at the New Madras where it turns, which used to absorb slot of the quakes effects. Then look into how many quakes in regions rare b4 having quakes now are becoming more frequent E. & N. E. of new madras
They just introduced fracking here in India some time back. With our level of corruption and corner-cutting, we're doomed.
Your worried about fracing, while having a garbage pile about the height of Taj mahal...
India is doomed in another way as well. In the second half of the century accelerated climate change goes exponential. Temps in India will soar to 60C (140F) making India uninhabitable. Hundreds of millions of Indians are going to STARVE TO DEATH! It's going to be ghastly.
I use to work for Haliburton in Colorado and the chemicals used for fracking caused my ulcerative colitis to where I had to have my colon removed.
I'm starting a job with them this week
too bad Americans don't understand that clean water is the key to quality of life
I live in an area where thousands of oil wells are drilled and fracked
It's just everyday life and
We experience zero problems from hydraulic fracturing
Thank you very much
You just want the money.
@@SteffiReitsch And they're getting paid by whom?
@@rnaodmsomething Who do you think. All that oil money going into the local economy at the expense of the environment.
@@SteffiReitsch If you're going to reply to me 45 mins after posting I posted my comment at least do some research, list your sources and such. How does money going into a local economy benifit an individual? Fracking is only harmful when it's done wrong, and I suppose if they're fracking near residential housing I'm assuming the shell company's being careful about it (which costs money, surprise)
What a beautiful documentary. Thatnks
One day we will find out, that after destroying last plant, after polluting last fresh water well, dollar bills are not edible.
"possibly dirtier than the industry cares to admit" Ha! I'm sure you can trust the habitual liars to tell you the truth.
The fact of the matter is that fracking is supposed to be safe, in theory. There are many moving parts to the process and little oversight which unfortunately leads to human error and negligence, often causing the unfortunate circumstances we see in this documentary.
Due diligence calls for protective casing and cement in the surface, intermediate and lateral sections of the well in that order, with the surface and intermediate sections closer to surface being cased/cemented with a higher thickness to protect the surrounding strata. The drilling muds/lubricants are different for each stage, as well. Those for the surface and intermediate sections are generally water based, and may be transitioned over to an oil based/synthetic mud once the lateral section of a wellbore is reached. This is also done to protect the exposed strata being drilled through in the first two stages. Each stage of casing/cement is also pressure tested to make sure the are no leaks.
Generally, there are thousands of feet between groundwater aquifers and most fracking operations. We are talking about upwards of 5,000 feet +, or almost a mile. Between the formations at these depths, there will be many impermeable layers which will keep anything found in them confined to that depth. The only exception would be if there is a major fault traversing these layers, but major faults cutting across thousands of feet are generally rare, as we are talking about millions of years of deposition and geological events and this would not allow for one clean fault in that manner. Especially true in more stable geologic regions.
The real issue comes when dealing with the byproducts of these wells whether it be accidents, lax government oversight or negligence. Wells will not only produce oil or gas, but will also produce water, methane, and a quantity of other gasses and liquids along with the main product. These byproducts to be stored at the well site as they are produced for the duration of the wells productive lifetime and may be burned off, or released into the air in the case of gasses or hauled off via truck or pipeline in the case of oil and water. The air quality near one of these sites may register a change if there are enough of these sites clustered around an area and the government would need to monitor the air quality to protect any populations living nearby.
At times, a site may experience a blowout, which is a sudden increase in pressure pushing up water, gas, and/or oil to the surface or to another subsurface formation. These can happen while drilling, or after drilling, even at completed wells and may last anywhere from a few hours to over a year (Deepwater Horizon, and others in the deep sea or countless others that occur frequently on land). A completed site may encounter natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. All of these things may lead to an unexpected release of product, which could inevitably lead to pollution.
Another often overlooked aspect of drilling is the disposal of the wastewater used in the fracking process. I'm not sure about the case presented in the video in South Africa and Botswana, but in general in the US, very little of the water returned from these wells is treated and reused. The amount of water used to drill is enormous, in the vicinity of millions of gallons, and whatever is recovered from the well is left to evaporate in surface retention ponds or disposed in deep underground injection wells. These retention ponds should be lined in order to avoid any leaching onto the surface soil. The deep water injection wells are generally drilled to a deep formation confined by impermeable formations above and below in order to avoid any migration of the fluids to any other formations, however, issues do arise and have been documented with these wells, too. It is believed by some that these injection wells cause an increase in formation pressure, and lubricate/reactivate old faults, leading to earthquakes in their vicinity.
We must also take into account the downstream processing of the product in refineries, distribution globally (tankers, semis, trains etc), local storage (gas stations, etc.), and the impact that other useful petroleum byproducts such as plastics, asphalt, medicines, clothes etc have on our lives and the environment.
The oil were extracting from the subsurface was made by natural processes, but it is still composed of harmful chemicals. These chemicals will cause harm when released onto the environment if we are not careful (whether a spill, gas release, or even plastic waste). In theory, the processes used to extract oil should be safe, but the reality of it is that there are many moving parts in the supply chain with many chances for something to go wrong.
You put a great deal of effort into this comment and it shows a great depth of technical knowledge on the subject. I have worked in lil and gas and like anything else’s if you plan and have good technical knowledge things can and most of the time do happen with out incident. If it is approached with a rushed careless attitude you can make a real mess.
Well said, you covered most and beyond of the flaws I saw in well maintenance.
So basically a mountain's worth of effort for something that can never be burned cleanly. Sounds like it needs to accept that it's the old form of energy. We need to accept that green energy is the only way forward.
@@taylorbug9 I work in frac, and were flat out busy. Our schedule is literally booked up. As long as military needs fuel. Fracing will continue. I run fuel, sand, hydration unit, frac pumps and chemicals. I got 9 years in oil field. I even done cement, setting up the protective casing. So much money in the bank for my daughter.
@@honeybadger4389 until it runs out. We can move on to better forms of energy before that happens or we can continue to let prices go up as resources go down and then we can panic when we get to the point where there's not enough to go around but we haven't developed systems to handle the amount of power our societies need. But you know what? F*** it, let's just procrastinate coming up with an energy source to run our entire lives. Because some owners of oil companies are making bigger bucks off your hard work.
I'd like to know what are the plans when we run out of this fuel?
Solar Energy. Net zero homes. all available right now.
Don't worry we will find something to burn. Only a matter of time till is open season on Antarctica Alaska and Greenland. Then there is the Russians with all their methane escaping from the now melting permafrost.
You mean like we did for thousands of year before 1800?
Peak oil genius Look it up.
Beware when someone tells you something is a "bridge technology." It tends to be a bridge to nowhere, a dead end. Sometimes literally.
With the concerns of contamination in the video. Here are some observations.
Spillage is a given when handling fluid. The less a human has to handle on the surface, the less surface contamination there is.
Animals-
Cows are too curious for their own good. Cows love licking oil, unfortunately its probably just as bad for them than us. They go out of their way to get to any oil, they will move obstacles and will lick oil off any surface. Similar can be said for other animals. Their interest in fluid substances is problematic for the animals, workers and equipment.
Ground water depletion-
A well is a well, a void where ground fluids can collect. How much is depleted? I could not be sure. However, most removed fluid is more water than oil. Also cannot be sure how much of that water is added in or how much water is native to the ground.
Fluid waste disposal and processing-
When a well is maintained, alot of personal accountability is involved with handling the fluid. Given this, alot of room for oversight is available.
Connot speak for the unseen process, but durring maintenance big red tanks are filled and driven away when full.
Economic impacts-
The land and mineral rights might be seperate. Often land is leased to the oil company for the well, utilities and the roads that lead to the well.
Desperate farms supliment their income by leasing. Land developers usually build around the leased land, that is why oil wells surrounded by suburbs can be found. Connot confirm, but potential for industrial activity probably hurts land value of the suburban properties. I sure do know that people complain about the gas emissions durring well maintenance.
There seems to be a significant amount of temp jobs. Reasonably, idle equipment is a net loss. So contractors do many of the operations. The jobs tend to be minimum wage with long hours. Jobs are inherently dangerous. Economically desperate people usually take the jobs.
Safety-
Explosive and/or toxic gas emissions are dangerous for sure. All tools must be intrinsically safe (no power tools). Respirators are not required for well maintenance. Individual gas monitors and wind direction are monitored. Cotton clothing is preferred, fire resistant outlayer is mandatory.
Seasonal weather and temperatures. Older workers are at greatest risk for heat stroke, your contractor boss might be nice enough to provide water.
PPE is encouraged and enforced when company supervisors are present. Personal accountability is what it comes down to in the end.
Locations are often remote, emergency rooms are far away, cell service is not always reliable.
People are dangerous. Some land owners and activists threaten work safety. Bomb threats are a concern and firearm discharge is a rare occurrence. Over night surveillance is done with cameras to monitor site activity.
Animals are dangerous. Rabies is a concern. Sometimes a single electrified wire separates us from herds of bulls, its fun to watch them play.
Most animals leave us alone or come out at night, animals endanger themselves at the site when humans are not present to shoo them away (observed through cameras and tracks). Birds will try to nest in rigs and become very aggressive with humans over territory.
Just sayin...as someone who’s worked in the gas and oil industry....you bring fracking to poverty...no more poverty...
Knowing some pipeline workers,, I've heard there's leaks all the time..People just don't know it..
and when you think , that for every task , a certain people is needed ! what i m saying is , we all , to one point or another . paticipate to the Masacre....
Yes, sickening isn't it.
We are all guilty in some way.. myself included.. unless you live completely off the land, but that is very difficult.
It’s true that it is difficult to live off the land but it could be made a lot easier if we put as much research and resources into making it easier to live off grid. The safest way to supply a home with electricity and heat and water is for the home itself to be a power plant that can charge batteries from wind, solar, and human power, and the electricity that can be harvested from the earth and the air. Early telephones were power by a handcrank generator and telegraph messages were powered by electricity from the ground around the poles. They never had to worry about the grid going down because there was no grid. Communication could be wirelessly through satellites or passed along through a series of local wireless receivers and transmitters. We wouldn’t have to worry about nuclear power plants like Fukushima melting down or not having anywhere to put their nuclear waste nor would we have to worry about environmental damage done by the oil, coal, and gas industries.
Simple solution. Get the Info on all the people involve on fracking including their family and release to the wild.
We’ll be waiting.
We’re not your target demographic.
INGREDIENTS WILL SHOCK YOU.
The quantity of known cheap energy reserves in the ground has doomed us as the small-brained pathetic species we really are. I feel bitter amusement, contemplating those scores of too-distant exo-planets we barely glimpse, and shall never visit.
For humans it was either Star Trek or Mad Maxx. It's going to be the latter. Heaven help the people and animals of the future with the mess they'll inherit.
Can there be a actual frac site shown instead of plants, rigs, and pumpjacks?
✨🌎 Excellent Field/ Global Reporting on Ecology & Social Impacts on Human~ these type of journalism people are interested in learning about 👍
It is truly a conundrum. The faster the world turns, the more energy we need. A lot of one or even two income families cannot afford to install and maintain green energy. And even some geographical locations are not suitable. For instance, I live in a deep narrow valley that gets very little sun and some days not more than a gentle breeze. Neither wind or solar would benefit me. I cannot afford to relocate. I used to burn wood for heat but I now use propane. One thing these companies could and should do is to install specialized water treatment plants everywhere they have their operations. That's the least they could do. Much more should be done. On a side note, the electricity supplied to the DC Capitol Complex ( over twenty buildings and structures) is generated by a COAL and NATURAL gas fired power plant located in southern DC.
How embarrassing that an Aussie is advocating for that industry in beautiful Africa.
Beautiful drilling rig
People with no mineral rights hate it- those who do definitely think otherwise; a case of peoples jealousy showing through.
Thanks to the wonderful couple who made this film. I convey my NOBLE HUMAN PRIZE to them.
Does anyone know the name of the background song at the beginning of the documentary.
Yeah I know, it's called "you're an idiot".
@@racebannon5523 😂😂👍
Yes give us your new green deal. . Just ask Biden , you know he won't lie!!
😂😂😂
You clearly see them using solar power @48:06
Yes! Thanks to civic community minded heroes journalists like u more people r indeed getting more aware of the detrimental effects God bless u all 👍🏻😃
fusion is the future of energy.
in 50 more years, so Renewable Energy for now to save our environment on this planet.
Actually Thorium is a superior, nuclear fuel. Look it up.
AHAHAHAHAHAH We've been hearing that for over 60 years. AHAHAHAHAHA
Great informative video. I wish they would leave something for the grandchildren, this isn't the rich people's world to destroy. How dare they!!!
The reality is there are no easy answers. The hippies were right with their "Peace & Love" message in the 60s, but we chose the 'economic growth at all costs' path instead. There's so much momentum that it seems impossible to reverse course.
We can, but it'd require LESS. Less consumption, less luxury, less population growth, less everything. But, you and I know that's not likely to happen. It's in our nature to want MORE. And it's bigger than a societal problem. It's in our biology. Young kids want more well before they become greedy CEOs. It's who we are 💯
When there's a will, there's a way. Unfortunately there is no will from the masses at the moment, although that is slowly changing. Renewables will have to be the answer, but we will keep relying on O&G until our governments stop the concessions these companies are receiving. It'll be a difficult, painful and expensive change.
@@julioalvarez9650 Renewables sound great, but wind and solar are only so viable (they rely on sun and wind, but sun and wind are intermittent). Plus, when the sun goes down is when we need the most power, and the amount of batteries it'd take to store the excess power isn't feasible at scale.
The real answer is nuclear, but when people hear that word they automatically think Chernobyl.
Beautifully said it's true.
@@jpii8468less population? Off yourself then. And all your pansy friends.
This video does not have enough adverts
Humans are very unique. They will intentionally and knowingly kill their habitat for no good reason.
Im only here cause of school lol
Same, I have a project due in 2 days so I’m rushing last minute
Same. I have a 6 page paper due tomorrow
@@TrulandEquip
This is the perfect documentary to indoctrinate you....well done.
@@redneckguy2169 Yeah God forbid you be indoctrinated with the facts for a change
@@earthdaddy
The so called facts you speak of are not relevant in this biased report. True there are some travesties in some parts of the world but in others it is done responsibly.
Greed and money rule the world!
Healthy land and water yields healthy crops and animals Wich by the way produce true clean gas🌎🌏🌍 and the jobs stay for generations.
Clean gas?? What are you talking about?
It just about compensation. My experience is the ones that miss out are angry and often jealous of the ones that get it. One farmer refused access so we went to his neighbour - he quickly reversed his decision. In QLD many farmers initially refuse access have now approached the gas company to let them in. Due to geology, some farmers receive huge compensation while their neighbours get nothing and feel they are taking the same risk. This is a political matter to determine if compensation goes to the ones directly affected or to the general community.
Whats QLD
@@wonka4 QLD is Queensland which is a state in Australia. There are over 3500 agreements between Farmers and Gas producers. The fundamental rule is that the Farmer cannot be a disadvantage - Now Farmers approach the Gas producers. The challenge now is getting off the Farmer's property. It is very difficult as compensation ends once the Gas company leaves their property.
@@donaldmcmillan7498 What does it mean to be a "disadvantage" as a farmer to these producers
@@wonka4 Under the Australian constitution [1901 before petroleum companies existed] each property can have multiple owners - Farmer owns the land, the Gas company owns the gas, Minerals & coal to the miners, same with wind and solar. The farmer cannot deny access to parts of the property he does not own nor purchased. In the case of a gas company they would need to build roads and drill wells - thus the farmer must be compensated for many many many things - the list is long. Basically, they get an income for 20 - 40 years.
@@donaldmcmillan7498 Im suspecting you are for some reason omitting words in your writing.
For example when you wrote in your first comment "many farmers initially refuse access" , you meant , "many farmers *who* initially refuse access". And when you wrote in your second one "the farmer cannot be a disadvantage", you meant "the farmer cannot be *at* a disadvantage".
thanks a lot USA
i like how this is called the endevr documentary, a nod to endeavor i assume?
Fracking is forbidden in Germany. And that for a reason.
But you could afford Solar panels. But you can’t go without natural gas. You’re just buying it from Russia. Not in my backyard is your policy
No, Germany is a very small country. It's not like US or Russia. So why should we not buy clean produced natural gas from our neighborhood ?
I saw already nearly exploding kitchens cause that's what come out from the water pipe in US.
So why should we want have this also in Germany ?
The ads!! Just too many to watch this!
get ad blocker. works great
The detection method 50% accurate. Sometimes the water is poisoned in the earth and no methane found.
God help us all
God isn't helping.
We have to help us self out.
Why is the music so loud and why do you have it
I like the content. But the ads ruin it..
I have worked for shell they are the most environmentally safe company out there one little drop on the ground must be reported as a spill they are on their game and their technology is phenomenal
Methane/Natural Gas in the atmosphere is the enemy and those who put it there. my 2 cents.
Tell it to the Nigerians where shell spilled oil and evaded responsibility for decades
Methane gas is a natural occurrence Natural gas is a lot cleaner than burning crude who educated you Peter
Why would I get involved with the Nigerians
@@brycegreen1573 cleaner is not better. It's safe at naturally occurring levels, not the ones created by these processed. I doubt you actually do what you say you do because you're far from the sharpest tool in the shed.
9:40 "cement cannot bond to steel" unless the steel is rebar of course
Wrong I have a whole pile of old well heads removed from the ground. Tom's of cement boned to them
@@harlanmcdiarmid I know that statement is wrong, that's exactly why I flagged it up
Nice outro music
Groundwater that is clean is nonexistent in Oklahoma area and nobody will do anything.
They are doing
The background music is so loud like they’re trying to fool you and you cannot hear where
At 48:06 you can clearly see them using solar lol
why we are filling symphatatic towards these
Fracking is killing the world .. say it .. dont feel afraid .. say it loud
"As a human rights advocate, I am extremely worried..." What's the point of calling attention to the fact that you're a human rights advocate? Congratulations, you're a human rights advocate. You don't have to be one to be "worried", and anyway, being worried, and telling the audience of the documentary you're worried, won't accomplish anything. These documentaries always seem half devoted to moral narcissism.
Yet the psychopaths tell you as a human is the cause of all this.
That Opera music is annoying AF!
what about the high cost of expensive gas?
A native Bushman does need or use gas. The southern part of Africa has sunshine up the yazoo. Why not Solar Energy? Call Elon Musk and have him give an estimate for electrifying Africa WITHOUT poisoning the place.
Hey Culligan Man.
What they need to do is mandate waterless fracking using propane.
Solar will not heat my house.
Have you considered burning wood in a modern wood stove or wood pellet furnace?
@@milapaul422 I have a Quadrafire insert that works quite well.
Nothing man does isn’t without pollution , there is a point of diminishing returns and for how long the damage will take to correct itself by nature ! Don’t look for these manufacturers to do it , they will fold or go under a different name leaving little trail as to who should be held accountable !
The greedy bast***s know they will be long dead when the poison comes back. Horrible.
TIA
If ya stop buying it, they'll stop making it. Don't give them your money and watch how fast this all stops.
@40:00 Why are you YELLING??
this is such a line of BS i work here in Wyoming in the frac capital of the world ..i also work with geologists in the oil field this is full of mis information and half truths ...i laughed at some of the out right lies on this video
Which parts? I'm not asking to be facetious, I do think that both sides should be heard and that way a person could reach a conclusion.
I am so glad to hear the voice of reason thank you very much. Appreciate your hard work. People are so easily brainwashed by anything they hear on RUclips.
Can you give us some pointers on what you see as false /incorrect?
How long do we have before it's all depleted?
Which you conveniently avoid pointing out.
@@steveabernathy7835 voice of reason? This person has yet to state one fact contradicting the points. Yet here you are praising him on his own empty words. Smh. I bet you're a Trumper too.
It's never mad $$ all on borrowed $$ . It will stop soon. ❤️❤️🌎❤️❤️
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People can sabotage it.
Meanwhile wind turbines are frozen solid in Texas. If your so against natural gas and oil,
there is a shut off valve on your heating system to turn it off.
There is wind power all over the world in all kinds of weather. I am wondering if ,like everything else in Texas , their system was not built for this kind of cold.
@@peterskove3476 I guess they know the answer now.
There was a map and not all of dallas was off power so stfu
@@prettycureforever7102 Go eat a Snickers Rambo.
It comes down to economics, everybody likes to drive but at what cost?
I don't. I hate cars.
you keep hearing about the high paying jobs they create, $1500 a week is good money for many US working men, what they never tell you is they are working 70 plus hours a week to get that, you can work 70 plus hours at taco bell and get close to that.
The match that will kill us all. They can use solar wind they don't want to.
Look into thorium. Future generations will look back on us and be disgraced.
Turf is the only sustainable fuel, gas isn't
Greed
That greedy Aussie dude
Maybe we all should just walk, can you walk to your next vacation in Europe, or maybe Mexico? 😩
I'm 27 and I've never bought a car. There was one job I walked an hour and 10 minutes to, one way, even in the snow.
Thank you to all who work in the old and gas industry. No other single industry has lifted more people out of poverty. Everyone owes you a debt of gratitude for the energy source you provide.
Absolutely, but we also need to weigh the cumulative environmental effects, especially on fresh water supplies in an era of increasing drought.
A certain amount may be acceptable, but there must be public discourse.
@@stevengill1736 no lack of public discourse these days. We have been pumping oil out of the ground for over a 100 years, so far we are doing great! (I'm not in the oil biz, nor am I invested there other than it supply's nearly all the energy I use)
Thank you
I'm not thanking any oil or gas workers because they have not done great things for humanity. They have helped extend the atrocity that is gas and oil.
@@taylorbug9 does not understand that her life and all that she does and has is thanks, in whole, to all that oil and gas have done for her. She is blind, and for all our sakes, my hope is that she and all like her can wake up to this truth before energy famine and its resulting poverty prove it to her in a most detestable but throughly undeniable way.
Don't mean to be that guy but when you say things like 40,000 L it sounds like a lot but technically it's like when you're driving down the road and you see one of those semi trailers with the tank on the back like the full size trailers that's 40,000 L Yeah it's quite a bit but it's not like mind blowing. You know when you're talking about water contamination and you're taking pictures of places where there's equipment surrounded with water on the ground from rain that could be associated with the voice over talking about the ground water. (ground water is under ground not the water above from rain well that is eventually but that's another story) it looks pretty bad too right I know I live in Alberta Canada and I've worked in oil and gas industry and we do have different rules here than United States does and other countries but if it's properly done it can be done proper.
Why would anyone pollute there own drinking water ?
For profits. Love of Money has no limits as it is the root of all evil.
They are not polluting their own drinking water. They are polluting the "little people's" water in the communities they destroy for profits as they sit in their pent houses.
fracs are thousands of feet below the water line divided by a rock layer hundreds of feet thick...this video is full of mis information and lies, i work with fracs as part of my job...this was laughable
Why you think americans never frack on there own land mm?
Desperation and greed. The locations of wells vary, some are placed in land that was later turned into suburbs by land developers. I've seen parks and neighborhoods that surround a well. Look for the park at Eagle Butte Ave and Wyndham Hill Pkwy. There are more wells within that neighborhood. Usually people complain about the gas that is released when these wells are serviced for maintenance, so it is likely there are not often utilized.
Some farms that host the wells, don't look like they are economically well off so they supplement their income by leasing land for the wells and roads that lead up to them. Look for the turkey farms in Weld County at the intersection of CR19 and CR22. They are dilapidated and don't seem to house turkeys anymore, but are instead used as storage. One even has a horse and some cats living out of it. In street view you will see a black swab rig (pulls excess fluid out of wells).
Well ladies and gentlemen, shut it off then
Erin Brockovich knows they don't care about people.
Why not stop drilling everywhere
Kiss your groundwater goodbye forever.