Dear President Obama Page #3

The process gives operators

a new, more invasive

level of efficiency

allowing them to drill

horizontally for miles

in all directions

from a single wellhead.

Though fracking has existed

for 60 years

this new high-tech process

high volume

hydraulic fracturing

was unlike any kind of

drilling done before.

It's like comparing

the Wright Brothers' plane

to an F-15.

Mid-size companies

based in Texas and Oklahoma

with names like Cabot,

Chesapeake, and Noble

became the state's

fastest growing employers.

The result..

...close to 10,000 new gas

wells drilled across the state

in just a few years.

It snuck up on us.

Uh, and, uh, we weren't

really paying attention.

This came on...

in the last ten years, uh..

...very, very quickly.

And it took a good long time

for the citizens

who were gonna have to

live with that fracking

to catch up with it.

Pennsylvania

is a perfect example of..

They were really stampeded.

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(Matt)

Bradford and Susquehanna County

had the-the two best

air qualities

in the State of Pennsylvania

before this started.

Now, Bradford County

and Susquehanna County

has got the two worst

quality of air

in the whole

State of Pennsylvania.

We're a rural farmland area

we don't have any

heavy industry up here.

We don't have

any big factories.

There's..

It's just all countryside.

They're all around us really.

We have quite a few within a

two or three mile radius of us

about nine or ten of 'em,

I think.

A year after

we moved into here..

...uh, one day all of a sudden

our water turned all gray

and our neighbor's water

turned all gray

and our well filled with methane

and...it turned black and..

...our well was actually

erupting like a geyser

'cause there was

so much methane in it.

And our levels it went from

38.9 milligrams per liter

which.. The saturation point

of water is 25 or 28--

Twenty eight.

Twenty eight milligrams per

liter, so anything beyond that

water can't hold it anymore

and it escapes.

So, our second test, our levels

had went up to 58.9. So..

- No, 58.4.

- 58.4?

It's a good thing you're good

with all those numbers 'cause..

It's all in here.

We haven't had any water

for six years.

We live out of a buffalo,

as they call it.

We-we go every week

for our own water.

Take care of that ourselves.

Even though we weren't

the ones that ruined the water

we're the ones

taking care of it.

Pennsylvania feels

it's our responsibility now.

Not Cabot's anymore.

I mean,

this place is spoiled now.

I can't leave it.. Am I gonna

leave it to my kids? For what?

So they can keep hauling water

the rest of their lives?

The government can have it back.

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