Sunday, April 24, 2011

The (un)Natural Gas Lie...Ours Is a SAFE Industry, Our Gas Clean, and Green

If you listen to the Natural Gas Industry propaganda, watch their carefully orchestrated commercials in the communities being TARGETS for FRACKING, they will have you believe theirs is a safe industry, their product both CLEAN and GREEN.  I did a cursory Google Search, by no means comprehensive in nature, but rather to show our readers just how easy it is to find example after example of just how UNSAFE Natural Gas wells are.


  1.  Explosion, Fire At Marcellus Shale Gas Well Site Under ...


    Feb 23, 2011 ... Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Well Fire Injures 3 In Washington County ... Resident Says Natural Gas Well Fire 'Sounded Like A Bomb Went Off' ...
    www.wtae.com › Pittsburgh News - Cached

  2. Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS: Natural gas well fire may ...


    Apr 7, 2011 ... Natural gas well fire may burn for 16 days or longer ... AUSTIN – Authorities now say a natural gas drilling rig fire that started April 1 ...
    txsharon.blogspot.com/.../natural-gas-well-fire-may-burn-for-16.html - Cached 

  3. Apr 16, 2011 ... A FIRE AT A NATURAL GAS WELL NEAR SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Friday afternoon caught a tanker truck on fire. It then spread to several others ...
    firegeezer.com/2011/04/16/gas-well-fire-takes-ten-18-wheelers/ - Cached

    Firefighters battle fire near natural gas well | 9news.com


    Dec 12, 2010 ... BYERS - Crews are still trying to contain a fire near a natural gas well that started Sunday morning in the Latigo Storage Field. ...
    www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=169396 - Cached

    Natural-gas well fire in Auburn Township under DEP probe ...


    Jul 15, 2010 ... The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a fire at a natural-gas well pad in northeastern Pennsylvania.
    www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/state/s_690476.html - Cached

    Gas well fire at Procter & Gamble extinguished; no injuries ...


    Nov 2, 2010 ... A fire at a natural gas well on the Procter & Gamble plant site near Mehoopany brought several firefighters and other emergency personnel to ...
    thetimes-tribune.com/.../gas-well-fire-at-procter-gamble-extinguished-no-injuries-reported-1.1057574 - Cached - Similar

    2 killed in gas well explosion in western Pa. - US news - Life ...


    Jul 23, 2010 ... PITTSBURGH — A natural gas well where welders were believed to be working exploded Friday, killing two people and sparking a fire that ...
    www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38380210/ns/us_news-life/ - Cached - Similar

    Natural-Gas Well Fire Continues to Burn in WV


    Sep 24, 2010 ... Until Chesapeake Appalachia can figure out how to choke off the flow of natural gas, a well fire in the Northern Panhandle will continue to ...
    www.whsv.com/westvirginiaap/headlines/103722269.html - Cached

    More on the 3/19 Lebanon well fire | un-naturalgas.org weblog


    Mar 20, 2009 ... Another example of gas company drilling PR damage control. Read between the lines: Gas well explodes in nearby Lebanon Tyler Murphy, ...
    un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2009/.../more-on-the-319-lebanon-well-fire/ - Cached

    Gas well burns out of control in northeastern B.C. - British ...

    Nov 12, 2008 ... A ConocoPhillips natural gas well caught fire in northeastern B.C. on Tuesday. (
    ConocoPhillips Canada). A ConocoPhillips Canada gas well is ...
    www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british.../story/.../bc-chetwynd-gas-well-fire.html