Sixty Lame Minutes (Kunstler)

[CanonRay]

So, last night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America's ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the "go-to" patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public.


http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/11/sixty-lame-minutes.html

[Nancy Waterman]

1. America is lately addicted to lying to itself

Great line! So true.

[canoeist52]

2. more...

• The fracking fluid is a secret proprietary cocktail formula amounting to 5 percent of the liquid injected into the earth. It's composed of: sand; a jelling agent to suspend the sand because water is not "thick" enough; biocides to kill bacteria that thrive in jelling agent; "breakers" to thin out jell-thickened water after fracking to get the fluid out of the way of released gas and improve "flowback;" fluid-loss additives to decrease "leak-off" of fracking fluid into rock; anti-corrosives to protect metal in wells; and friction reducers to promote high pressures and high flow rates. Of the 5.5 million gallons of fluid injected into each well, 27,500 gallons is the chemical cocktail.

"• Mr. McClendon said on 60 Minutes that it couldn't possibly harm the public's water supply because they were drilling so far below the 1000-foot-deep maximum of most water wells. He left out the fact that they have to drill through those drinking water layers to get down to the shale gas, and pump the fracking fluid through it, and then get the gas up through it. He also left out the fact that the concrete casings of drill holes sometimes crack and leak at any depth."

[eleny]

4. He blamed the poisoning of the water on "a bad concrete job"

That's cold comfort.

[WinkyDink]

3. My beloved PA is finished. Corbett and Toomey will sell us off.

[Junkdrawer]

5. K&R

[robertpaulsen]

6. K & R!

:kick:

[Strelnikov_]

7. KunstlerCast #133: The Tea Party

A Vacuum in Progressivism

JHK shares his thoughts on the recent U.S. midterm elections, the Tea Party, Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, and the problems of progressivisim.

http://kunstlercast.com/


And he likes Spitzers show on CNN.

[Strelnikov_]

8. Good summary on how fracked in the head fracking really is n/t