Michigan industry defends 'fracking' process

Source: AP

Michigan industry defends 'fracking' process
8:19 AM, Jul. 16, 2011
BY JOHN FLESHER
ASSOCIATED PRESS


Michigan's oil and gas industry hopes to avoid a political fight over a method of extracting natural gas called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."

The practice has sparked lawsuits in some states and turned neighbors against each other.

The debate has been relatively quiet in Michigan. But that could change as companies explore a deep underground formation called Collingwood shale that stretches across the northern Lower Peninsula.

A few exploratory wells have been drilled and haven't turned up much. But companies have leased about $188 million worth of drilling rights in the area.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110716/BUSINESS06/110716004/Michigan-industry-defends-fracking-process

The Mr. O has done nothing to end Cheney's law that gives immunity to the natural gas companies who are injecting industrial toxins into our ground water, streams, and in Pennsylvania, actually into our municipal drinking water supply.

Insanity!

They should have to buy all the homes and land in the area that has been rendered uninhabitable at three times the property value and pay for moving and relocation costs including a years salary to everyone affected in order for those people to start a new life.

in this country they get wealthy and we pay clean up costs- the whole "privatize profits, socialize risk" thing.