[newswriter99]

>Yeah, I love lighting my water on fire and fracking earthquakes

Natural gas from fracking does not cause burning tap water.

https://www.cred.org/is-fracking-connected-to-burning-tap-wa...

Fracking-related earthquakes are either minimal or bebeficial

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/faq/does...

0/10 "green energy" shill. Fracking gave us dirt cheap natgas, which is damn cleaner than coal AND why your electricity prices havent gone up in the last decade. Educate yourself.

[kstrauser]

> Natural gas from fracking does not cause burning tap water.

I'll take a step back from "burning", because that seems hard to prove, but it most certainly does contaminate ground water: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-can-cont...

> Fracking-related earthquakes are either minimal or bebeficial

That's the most insane claim I've read on the Internet this week. You should be ashamed for saying that.

Beneficial earthquakes. Now I think I've heard everything.

I know it's against Hacker News rules to assume bad intent in posts, but I cannot believe that you're saying these things in good faith. It's just not possible.

[samatman]

It's possible. I have no clue if fracking does so, and the link doesn't support this, but hear me out:

If you can choose between, say, five Richter 3 earthquakes, or one Richter 7, you definitely want the five small ones.

IF fracking induced small earthquakes and IF those small earthquakes relieved pressure such that a big one didn't happen, then those small earthquakes would be beneficial.

This is comparable to deliberately lighting small brushfires to use up fuel and prevent destructive wildfires.

It would be a remarkable coincidence if fracking only caused such beneficent and salubrious earthquakes, and never triggered worse ones. But were it so, it would be good.

[newswriter99]

> I'll take a step back from "burning", because that seems hard to prove, but it most certainly does contaminate ground water

Fracking wastes (the sluice of water, sand and a scant amount of chems) does not equal natural gas.

Natural gas does NOT contaminate water. Fuck off.

[IAmEveryone]

I hear these “Beneficial Earthquakes” are all the rage in the wellness community. Could be better than Probiotic Plutonium, Fun Flooding, and maybe even Happy Cardiac Arrest

[Analemma_]

What is cred.org?

CRED (Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development)

Our Membership

Our members are leaders in the Colorado oil and natural gas community: Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Noble Energy, Bayswater Exploration and Production, DCP Midstream, Liberty Oilfield Services, PDC Energy

Not exactly a trustworthy source you've got there.

[newswriter99]

"Oh noes, the corporations used science! That's not fair!"

Find me a "credible source" that shows natural gas contaminates water. Go ahead. I'll wait.