Details of Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)

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Original Broadcast date: June 24, 2014. Ezra Levant goes to rural Pennsylvania and documents the true nature of "fracking" by going to a site and talking to the people involved at every level of the process. Most people have only been exposed to the "Gasland" movie but this coverage tells the true story of how it's done and what the true impacts are on the environment and the world.

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  • @andredegraaf1643
    @andredegraaf16434 ай бұрын

    Great and articulate explanations by the people being interviewed. Very informative program.

  • @StandngOnBusiness
    @StandngOnBusiness4 жыл бұрын

    I have to give it to this reporter he asked every question I had in my head and more and I haul sand to these jobs everyday and had zero clue what’s going on

  • @Okfalls
    @Okfalls8 жыл бұрын

    Wow this needs more exposure! Well done Ezra!!! Biggest point here is the recycling of Frack Water, second is the effort towards Safety and protection of the environment.

  • @theeagle3349

    @theeagle3349

    6 жыл бұрын

    how much did you get paid for this bollocks

  • @TheAncientOneOfDays

    @TheAncientOneOfDays

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey you POS, drink some more and filter it through your kidneyes and pass the bucket to you kids and make your wife drink. disgusting fracks you all are

  • @fogboyenterprise2724

    @fogboyenterprise2724

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheAncientOneOfDays Do you complain when your house is heated too?

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    Frac. It's Frac-ing there is no K in fracture.

  • @DengKhor
    @DengKhor5 жыл бұрын

    This is what I'm doing for living. Safety is the first priority and in God's will we all the oil workers will be safe to support our family.

  • @1776adb
    @1776adb8 ай бұрын

    Best discription so far

  • @shishkabobby
    @shishkabobby6 жыл бұрын

    It was a bit ra-ra, but generally a great presentation. The last sentence was a bit of asshattery.

  • @FolkloreMcgrin
    @FolkloreMcgrin2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the report!

  • @alfy234
    @alfy23419 күн бұрын

    Best video I’ve seen and I’m in my 4th year Fracking

  • @ernestwiatrek3940
    @ernestwiatrek39403 жыл бұрын

    Question: I have fracked wells in the Eagle Ford tight shale zone in Karnes County, Texas. Approximately how large and how long are the "cracks" perpendicular to the lateral lines? I've heard around 1000+ feet, typically. The wells are about 10,500 feet deep. Any info you could provide......

  • @jakebdeltoro5191
    @jakebdeltoro51915 жыл бұрын

    Micheal hayne. Produced water can be re used. If it is too contaminated to be treated it gets taken to a SWD and disposed of thousands of feet below the water table not into ponds and lakes.

  • @boblynch7348
    @boblynch7348Ай бұрын

    Thank God for American ingenuity!

  • @UselessTrucker
    @UselessTrucker6 жыл бұрын

    So where does the water come from and where does the ruined water go?

  • @johnmiller632

    @johnmiller632

    6 жыл бұрын

    the water comes fromwerever they can get it when they 1st stared with this carp they just dumped it back into strems+rivers not good!then they tried to treat at waste plants but its to dirity so then they built holding ponds not good eather now they drill holes in the earth +pour it down the hole now what do u think about that?

  • @douglashinckley7316

    @douglashinckley7316

    5 жыл бұрын

    The reclaimed water will be recycled and reused in more fracking.

  • @josephv5346

    @josephv5346

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @o0anonymity0o

    @o0anonymity0o

    5 жыл бұрын

    So that it can eventually rejoin the water table the long way around? So that we don't see the results for 50 years vs. 5 years? Oh, that makes sense....capitalism.

  • @jeremydeveraux4785

    @jeremydeveraux4785

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@o0anonymity0o God bless Capitalism!

  • @antoniomathiotte4585
    @antoniomathiotte45855 жыл бұрын

    Carry on, America. The founders are blessing you wherever they might be.

  • @fogboyenterprise2724
    @fogboyenterprise27244 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many hours of orientations he had to sit through just to do this news piece

  • @try_neat4553

    @try_neat4553

    Жыл бұрын

    probably one or none

  • @captur69
    @captur69 Жыл бұрын

    The energy involved in franking is unbelievable....ie diesel, oil,etc...very unnatural process to the land..

  • @valeighaochoa3038
    @valeighaochoa30385 жыл бұрын

    I might be getting a fracking job any legit tips

  • @wt1370

    @wt1370

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lots of tips. But you need to be more specific for me to help

  • @fogboyenterprise2724

    @fogboyenterprise2724

    4 жыл бұрын

    Be prepared to be flamed for being new, take nothing to heart, tomorrow is a new day. Get ready to work long obscure hours and get paid very decently for doing grunt work starting out, don't complain, and don't talk back unless it's out of actual humour when the situations not serious - going against any of these will get you canned quick

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't do drugs

  • @abysaxen7367
    @abysaxen73675 жыл бұрын

    Torpedoes were used earlier in oil wells to increase the well flow laying the roots of "Fracturing" know more : oges.info/library/141575/DID-YOU-KNOW_-Torpedoes-were-used-earlier-in-oil

  • @jbg71384
    @jbg713845 жыл бұрын

    They had the green hat vacuuming the water, lol.

  • @wt1370

    @wt1370

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s called containment brother. It’s all part of the job and adherence to regulations. If there’s a bunch of water laying around it’s harder to detect a potential leak. He’s still probably pulling in $75k+/yr

  • @StandngOnBusiness

    @StandngOnBusiness

    4 жыл бұрын

    Justin Gomez that green hat doing containment making more money than you

  • @jbg71384

    @jbg71384

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@StandngOnBusiness Shut the fuck up pussy. I'm sure he also makes more than you do. I was a Green hat in the oil field too. We got the worst tasks. That's why I was commenting.

  • @DavidLee-ot4pz
    @DavidLee-ot4pz5 жыл бұрын

    I admire the engineers that perfect this process and allow US to win the war of energy independence as declared by President Carter years ago.

  • @MarkZiegler
    @MarkZiegler5 жыл бұрын

    They say the wells last for decades but I fear investors know better.

  • @tommylyeah
    @tommylyeah4 жыл бұрын

    Marcellus Wellas.

  • @eerfhcunl7212
    @eerfhcunl72125 жыл бұрын

    Nice. BP should watch this

  • @alphonsotate2982
    @alphonsotate29825 жыл бұрын

    Why use dangerous chemicals guys use plain water and sand instead because the hydraulics of hydraulic pressure is what cracks the rock .

  • @lizkekahbah1172

    @lizkekahbah1172

    5 жыл бұрын

    Even if they didn't add toxic chemicals, the water would still be polluted by the arsenic and radioisotopes naturally underground, as well as by the petroleum products.

  • @wt1370

    @wt1370

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lubrication for one thing, they’re not going to spend $ on unnecessary additives

  • @hogsnplanes
    @hogsnplanes9 жыл бұрын

    Truth no one wants to hear.

  • @rjohnson2813
    @rjohnson281317 күн бұрын

    If you spell it with a "K" you have nothing to offer.

  • @treasureministries
    @treasureministries6 жыл бұрын

    Why are the oil companies taking so much fresh water permanently out of the system?? Can they not use salt water, sea water?? This is bad!!

  • @robertnealy

    @robertnealy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dean Baumgartner salt water inland ? Haha

  • @BrianOram
    @BrianOram10 жыл бұрын

    excellent - more of these are critical

  • @anibalmorales3769
    @anibalmorales37695 жыл бұрын

    Just to show, what little information is given is what little information is believed as truth. In this reporting segment, there is no mention of the chemical mixture or the type of chemicals being used in the mix ( fracking fluid) to frack the shale. The issue is there along with the geology of the land, ie faults, rifts, etc. Also, what about the “reinjection” process, the very last process, where they dump that “recycled” chemical water back into the shale closing the well, is another point of concern. Blame the industry lobbyists, the good ole boys and your congressional body for allowing no transparency regulations in this industry. By law they don’t have to tell what chemicals they’re using the frack the shale. Everyone the reporter covered is completely invested, PR trained, and lets consider this is there bread winning careers so they’re going to show you the elements of “safety regulations,” ie containment tarps, etc. People don’t be blinded by half-truths. When there is money involved there is always room for corruption. Money is one hella-of-drug! And reporter do your homework. That’s the reason why fuk-stick ump is calling you guys “fake news” .... complacency is another hella-of-drug which is rampant in texas the dump star state.

  • @wt1370

    @wt1370

    5 жыл бұрын

    Anibal Morales - No half truths , it was actually refreshing to see a journalist cover a story without the predetermined left wing bias we’ve come to accept as journalism.

  • @levelhead4597

    @levelhead4597

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wt1370 it was definitely useful for learning more about the technical elements of fracking, but this is literally a PR piece for industry. None of the questions he asks are challenging for the operators, as they all lead to talking points the industry has developed over the years. One way of knowing is when he says there have been no proven instances of groundwater contamination. That is just a lie, there have been many instances, whether you’re talking about produced water spills, methane migration to groundwater, etc...

  • @levelhead4597

    @levelhead4597

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wt1370 also not discussed, the degradation of pipes over time, corrosion and pinhole leaks, or emissions from the GIANT trucks, and methane releases

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd be happy to inform you on any information you might need with what goes into the ground as I was one that put it there. So please contact me.

  • @BurningButthole
    @BurningButthole5 жыл бұрын

    100,000 barrels lol someone take that white hat from him

  • @chadhallam9181

    @chadhallam9181

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @CoreyV2793

    @CoreyV2793

    4 жыл бұрын

    True lol

  • @scotyfilms
    @scotyfilms6 жыл бұрын

    The big issue is, ALL OIL CASINGS WILL EVENTUALLY FAIL. Why? The earth moves over time, and when it moves even just a bit. It is going to break the cement and crack the Steel casings. When this happens, all hell will break loose in the clean water aquifer, destroying all of the purity in the water for human consumption. It might take 50years or 200years but this will happen and cause unseen amounts of damage to so many places all over America. There could be a solution. Do they fill the hole with cement when finished??

  • @JBCarrera54

    @JBCarrera54

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you put the same amount of energy into researching the process of oil drilling as you do trying to stigmatize it, you’d know there are multiple layers of cement surrounding each casing

  • @JBCarrera54

    @JBCarrera54

    5 жыл бұрын

    And as soon as everything is done, the well is filled with cement and a plug is welded on followed by land repair. After all of that, you can’t even tell the well was there

  • @OutdoorCraftsman

    @OutdoorCraftsman

    5 жыл бұрын

    As a wireliner ( someone who inspects the casing yearly) that depends on your local state regulations some areas ie Alberta Canada they've been fracking since the 1960's and having yearly inspections. It is expensive but saved quite alot of headaches over my career

  • @janegertrude9270

    @janegertrude9270

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@OutdoorCraftsman thanks for your comment, hard to find much detailed info about Canada's fracking that isn't buried inside a thesis lols!. Appreciate your confirmation about the annual inspections. Cheers!

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    Tell me how it ends in 50 /200 years

  • @Jwesd1123
    @Jwesd1123 Жыл бұрын

    *frac

  • @tbone4u100
    @tbone4u1003 жыл бұрын

    It's really going to Boom after all the fracking.🕳💣💥

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    No it'll mean lower prices as now gas fed energy plants are supplementing coal and nuclear power.

  • @klyonsden
    @klyonsden5 жыл бұрын

    Ok. So, it can be a lot like the movie 'The Core'. Soooo, lets frak under Russia, North Korea, and China. Maybe more later. It will be remembered as a message of 'Frak You Commies'. Ok....Got it! (getting a migraine headache).

  • @Alex-xg5kr
    @Alex-xg5kr Жыл бұрын

    Fracking is the cause of the homeless crises because the micro surface quakes are destroying the foundations of buildings in a much bigger area as currently thought and admitted by the operators. The vibration also erode shore lines and cause cracks on highways!!!

  • @morganwilliams3031
    @morganwilliams30316 жыл бұрын

    "steel" LMFAO....you mean "Iron" buddy..

  • @fogboyenterprise2724

    @fogboyenterprise2724

    4 жыл бұрын

    .. Fracks use steel tho..

  • @tinavigil3904
    @tinavigil3904 Жыл бұрын

    Question Ezra.... are you even remotely interested in presenting both sides of this issue? Or are you only interested in the candy coated rainbows and bubbles version? This company may take extra precautions. I mean it all looks good and all but how about coming to Colorado and touring real life wells and unsafe fracking wastewater disposal backed up with a ton of proof?! Or does PIONEER scare you too?!

  • @mikemeyer1888
    @mikemeyer18885 жыл бұрын

    why does this video sound so enthusiastic about destroying our environment and our drinking water??? for frack sakes!!

  • @trentcooper8894

    @trentcooper8894

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its not distroying your wartter at all frac happens below the watter table

  • @mikemeyer1888

    @mikemeyer1888

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@trentcooper8894 and washes up into our table once pressurized the casing fails

  • @OutdoorCraftsman

    @OutdoorCraftsman

    5 жыл бұрын

    If it was really that bad the government would actually shut it down but when subject matter experts get their say in the voice of reason prevails keep in mind public opinion is bought and paid for and Netflix has sold out to the middle East who wants to protect their market share

  • @jeremydeveraux4785

    @jeremydeveraux4785

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@OutdoorCraftsman Well said. No pun intended.

  • @philclark7637

    @philclark7637

    5 жыл бұрын

    There has been 0 proven incidents of that happening. It’s very highly regulated.

  • @tarrasss1
    @tarrasss15 жыл бұрын

    what a bunch of lies.

  • @wt1370

    @wt1370

    5 жыл бұрын

    Can you please be more specific. I’ve been in the industry 6 years and it was 100% accurate

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been in it for 18 years. When you learn more the truth is even better. 🔥

  • @naturalremedy8092
    @naturalremedy80923 жыл бұрын

    Their destroying their beautiful state

  • @vszasz

    @vszasz

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should actually watch the video before commenting like this.

  • @kevinbashnick

    @kevinbashnick

    Жыл бұрын

    Their making most of their beautiful state and keeping it clean.

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