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The gas fracking companies are invested billions deep in this new process and as it is still cheaper to spend hundreds of millions to corrupt the evidence and decision makers than it is to stop. Here are a few of the facts WE KNOW about slickwater horizontal hydraulic fracturing. Land values go down in the entire region after fracking occurs (and violates mortgage agreements). Pollutants contaminate neighbors water and air and are noisy (criminal trespass), as well as drill under their property. Truck activity does damage to local roads. What is added to the fracking fluid is toxic. That injected fluid can and does make it to the groundwater. The flowback also comes up laced with toxins from deep underground, like radium, heavy metals, and salts. Methane in the water near fracking sites becomes higher after drilling. Earthquakes increase in regions that are fracked. The industry has supressed and denied all information about how this new process, sharing a different processes name, is dangerous. Deep injection wells have around a 15% failure rate. All studies about fracking that give it a clean bill of health have been corrupted by the frackers influence. Every study critical of the new practice has been attacked furiously. Under the guise of job creation and reduced reliance on foreign Natural Gas, we are letting companies poison us. That their arguments are false means nothing when hundreds of millions of dollars are spread among the politicians, advertisements, academia, etc.. But remember that the costs of treating people sick from this process will far outweigh any short-term benefit we get from this process, and those costs will be bourne by our communities, local, state, and federal governments as these companies deny responsibility, and be far higher than any short-term benefit we receive, not to mention the other costs.

The last thing we need is a Constitutional convention, there has been a movement to try build support for one but people don't realize a few things. First a constitutional convention opens the entire constitution to revision, such as first and second amendment rights, any portion deemed outdated can be deleted or "rewritten" and who does the rewriting and approving? Not the people, the elected "representatives" who represent nothing more than the interest of big business and themselves. We can remove the pension and benefits for senators representatives and their cronies by introducing and passing legislation or amendments.There is no need for a convention, but until we get out from in front of our big screen t.v.'s, realize that comfort is another way of being enslaved and actually remove our legislators who arent willing to cut their own paychecks and kill their benefits for life, we're going to reap what we deserve.