Dear President Obama Page #4

They want it so God damn bad.

That's what it seems

like to me.

You know, here you are,

using water as the club

to smash apart the bedrock

to get oil or gas out of it.

On its journey down

to the shale and back up again

it's picked up a lot of

naturally occurring

toxic chemicals

that are trapped in the shale.

And these can be heavy metals

these can be

radioactive substances

and these can be

other hydrocarbons

things like benzene

which we know with certainty

is a, is a, uh,

is a carcinogen.

So, all of these,

um, toxic chemicals

that had been

safely trapped in the shale

a mile or more below our feet

where they're not

gonna hurt anybody

are now exhumed

and brought to the surface.

Now, you ask about test results

and chemicals,

and everything else..

Well, sonny, here you go.

'You know, three grades of

uranium in my water.'

'Three grades of thorium,

strontium, manganese, arsenic..'

The list just goes

on and on and on.

(Ray)

We're idiots, we're liars,

we're just trying to get money

out of the industry

and nothing else..

All I want is my water back.

18,000 gas well pads

the size of, each one of them

for a horizontal drilling,

so huge, five acre pads.

And all the interconnecting

pipelines and roads

and, uh, truck trips,

you're talking about

more than several thousand

truck trips per well.

We don't have 18,000

of anything over here.

[chuckling]

You know, we don't have

18,000 driveways.

(Rebecca)

This is rural America,

it's country

and because of sparse population

we're a marginalized

sub-population

and our lives are not valued

as much as, um

people living in dense areas,

like a city.

We're disposable,

my life is disposable.

And that's really

difficult to fight.

Um, because you can't

go back and change..

..to change the regulations,

the frack regulations..

You need legislators,

and for this county

it basically a done deal.

Natural gas has me very

optimistic about the future.

optimistic about the future.

Natural gas has much less CO2

than coal or oil

and costs less too.

Using natural gas to support

more renewable energy.

Make sense for the climate.

With the gas industries

in the area

the sky is the limit.

(male announcer)

'Pennsylvania's natural gas'

'ready to fuel our future,

today and tomorrow.'

It sounded so good and

particularly with natural gas

because, uh, everyone wanted

to do something about,

uh, climate change.

People are trying to figure out

how they're gonna get

enough carbon

out of the atmosphere

to make, to make

the United States work

and to keep the economy going.

And the idea was

burning natural gas

produces lower CO2 emission

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