Sign seen this past Sunday at Sims road in Wayne County, just off Highway 15
Those traveling Illinois Route 15 between Wayne City and Fairfield lately have no doubt seen the signs posted roadside that indicate a “seismic survey crew” is working in the area.
This survey crew, from Global Geophysics out of Texas, is part of Woolsey Energy II LLC, the fracking operation that has everyone in southern Illinois believing that they’re going to be the savior of our energy woes and high prices.
There’s been a lot made of Woolsey’s presence in the area in local media, and there’ll be more on that in upcoming issues. But in the meantime, very little was made of an incident that occurred in Wayne County earlier this year on the other side of the county from where the seismic monitoring is going on. This incident, if anything, was only covered UP by local media. But thanks to the efforts of a couple of anti-fracking groups, the situation has been brought to light and is featured in the current edition of Disclosure on stands now, at the page 17 article, Fracking explosion ignored by local media, your noontime Read the Lead:
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The dangers of the new type of fracking (high volume hydraulic fracking, or HVHF, designed to fracture substructure rock in order to force oil and natural gas to the surface where it’s captured) being done throughout the country continue to be stifled by mainstream media, who, on the local level, more often than not spout the party line about how fracking is: the only way to recover the economy of downstate Illinois; going to provide clean, immediately-usable energy in the face of oil shortage scares; perfectly safe.
The problem with these assertions is that none of them are proven: local economies don’t benefit from HVHF primarily due to the fact that most fracking units bring in their own crews from out of the area and often from out of state, and therefore don’t hire on a local level; the amount of natural gas recovered from most fracking sites is negligible; and, as can be seen in this article, can be unsafe in many unexpected ways….
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