thomas linzey: the corporate boys' quest for energy sources is coming to a point where it means extractingff from places where they haven't been before, and now those harms are coming face to face with the communities that are trying to stop them. one of the big issues today is hydrofracking for natural gas. they drill underground, and then they horizontally drill across. tanker trucks haul in 2 to 10 million gallons of water per well, then mix it with a proprietary cocktail of over 500 chemicals. they inject that mixture at high pressure through the pipe to create fractures in the rock, which then releases the gas for extraction. this can lead to contaminated private wells and public aquifers. in appalachia, the marcellus shale contains radon that gets released when the rock is fracked, so you have this sometimes radioactive water coming back up from the drill holes that's actually now dumped into ponds and dped on roads and all kinds of pces. whether you're talking aut mountaintop removal in west virginia, whether you're talking about this frack water that's being pumped out of the holes