Two New YouTube Videos

We’ve added two new videos to the GasWellStudy channel at YouTube (youtube.com/gaswellstudy). In the first, Gas Well Study Cooking Class: Making Fracking Gel, we make a gallon of liquid gel fracking fluid. This results from part of our continuing study of the effects of chloride on vegetation. This year we began applying other components in waste that is normally land applied, in this case fracture gel alone and then with chloride.

The second video consists of two interviews with West Virginians who have lost their domestic water supplies due to the effects of Marcellus drilling. It is titled Bottled Water because once their supplies were poisoned, the only solution now for them is buying their water. The state doesn’t seem to intervene when a driller contaminates water. Affected persons must seek redress through the courts.

We’re working on more videos and have lots of great interview material from both Bonnie and Paul who appear in Bottled Water.

Once I can figure out how to configure the YouTube embedding for size, I’ll start put in the normal video links. Until then, clicking on the titles will get you there, or go to www.youtube.com/gaswellstudy.

August 11, 2011