Powering the Phoenix Area?

[Jim]

Yes, the topic you've been itching for is finally here. Phoenix and Arizona love their electricity. Be it swamp cooler or AC, hydro and feel good solar and wind simply can't replace the other less eco-friendly sources we currently employ. Global warming may be the specter of fear which became a politically divisive tool to further inter-party divisions, but even in a would where carbon dioxide is a friendly as nitrogen gas, coal pollutes like an old guy comping on a Cuban Cigar (which is burning) in a fine restaurant. Where will the hippies and fossil fuel junkies take us?

See the photo that started it all!!
http://hikearizona.com/photo.php?ZIP=142330

[gringoantonio]

Has anyone seen this film?

http://gaslandthemovie.com/

[Jim]

Yeah, I have read that they are doing that Fracking in SW Colorado on Ute lands. Another legacy of the last administration.

[big_load]

Yeah, I have read that they are doing that Fracking in SW Colorado on Ute lands.

I haven't seen the movie, but they're doing a lot of that on PA state forest land. There have been all kinds of nasty side effects, including a 1+ M gallon toxic spill and big increase in the contamination of private wells. Most of those affect people that have no other water source.

[Jim]

Yeah, I have read that they are doing that Fracking in SW Colorado on Ute lands.

I haven't seen the movie, but they're doing a lot of that on PA state forest land. There have been all kinds of nasty side effects, including a 1+ M gallon toxic spill and big increase in the contamination of private wells. Most of those affect people that have no other water source.

From the film's website, that seems to be the norm with gas extraction, or that form of it. Public safety and welfare takes a backseat to profits.

[Jeffshadows]

Public safety and welfare takes a backseat to profits.

What else is new?? ;)

[Jim]

Gasland becomes available 12/14/10 on Netflix.