Did you know the gas retrieval process known as fracking requires 1 to 5 million gallons of water to frack one well? We are in the midst of the worst American drought in over 50 years and the taxpayer subsidized oil and gas industry wants to use hundreds of millions of gallons of fresh water to explode layers of shale and release the trapped gas. The water they use is poisoned forever. It cannot be cleaned of the fracking chemicals. The water is re-acquired and injected into injection wells deep underground. This poison water may one day poison well water in Ohio and other states. Local control of the fracking process in Ohio has been taken away and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has absolute control. Ohio is on schedule to have parts of its counties turned into industrial wastelands. Short term gain landowners and the gas and oil industries are quickly changing the American Landscape forever and not for the better. Now let me get this straight, corporations with more money than god, can tear apart communities devalue their property possibly poison their life giving water supply or deplete it into non-existence and Americans can't do anything about it. Oh wait, Corporations are people, yes they are.
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