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I will not be at all surprised when disease rates in areas near fracking skyrocket. Of course it will take probably ten years to even loosely correlate illness

I will not be at all surprised when disease rates in areas near fracking skyrocket. Of course it will take probably ten years to even loosely correlate illnesses and deaths with "new" oil activity, and longer still for any change of course (if ever) In many ways it feels like we still live in the wild west

googoogaga 7y ago
Please source your claims. Fracking most definitely increases rates of low Richter scale seismic activity. However, fracking does not pollute groundwater. Wastewater injection, a process which happens once a fracked well is exhausted, can - if done improperly. However, your claim is nothing but anti-science drivel unless you source it. Do you also believe vaccinations are harmful because they "inject chemicals into your body"? These processes are more nuanced then you think and are heavily regulated.
hanniabu 7y ago
While I agree, they'll deny it all and say correlation does not equal causation, we don't care about common sense, and we have better lawyers than so fuck you we'll keep doing this and raking in the cash until your land is decimated and useless and we'll move on to the next plot of land to destroy and profit off of.
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- googoogaga 7y ago
  Hyperbolic nonsense. Please try and avoid this kind of comment on HN. It is more fitting for a site like reddit.
  - Analemma_ 7y ago
    A green account, which as far as I can tell was created solely for the purpose of posting comments defending an industry well-known for hiring shills to muddy the waters on established science, should not be lecturing other people on HN norms.
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hedora 7y ago
Remember: You can never prove that your particular case of cancer came from drinking carcinogens. Sure, all your neighbors died of the same thing, but maybe you’re the only one that would have had it anyway. (This argument has worked in court, which is why I’m repeating it.)
- mywittyname 7y ago
  Luckily, you don't need to prove 100% culpability to win a civil suit.

googoogaga 7y ago

Please source your claims. Fracking most definitely increases rates of low Richter scale seismic activity. However, fracking does not pollute groundwater. Wastewater injection, a process which happens once a fracked well is exhausted, can - if done improperly. However, your claim is nothing but anti-science drivel unless you source it. Do you also believe vaccinations are harmful because they "inject chemicals into your body"? These processes are more nuanced then you think and are heavily regulated.

hanniabu 7y ago

While I agree, they'll deny it all and say correlation does not equal causation, we don't care about common sense, and we have better lawyers than so fuck you we'll keep doing this and raking in the cash until your land is decimated and useless and we'll move on to the next plot of land to destroy and profit off of.

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googoogaga 7y ago
Hyperbolic nonsense. Please try and avoid this kind of comment on HN. It is more fitting for a site like reddit.
- Analemma_ 7y ago
  A green account, which as far as I can tell was created solely for the purpose of posting comments defending an industry well-known for hiring shills to muddy the waters on established science, should not be lecturing other people on HN norms.
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hedora 7y ago

Remember: You can never prove that your particular case of cancer came from drinking carcinogens. Sure, all your neighbors died of the same thing, but maybe you’re the only one that would have had it anyway. (This argument has worked in court, which is why I’m repeating it.)

mywittyname 7y ago
Luckily, you don't need to prove 100% culpability to win a civil suit.