Saturday, May 14, 2011

Blogger problems, blogging consequences


As some of you know, Blogger was down for an extended period of time. Blogs including this one could still be seen, but we couldn't post anything. And, what's more, for some of that time all posts beginning at some point on Wednesday weren't there anymore. They had simply vanished. Thankfully, Blogger finally fixed whatever it was that was ailing the system and restored the posts, which brings us to now, the very-early-morning hours of Saturday.

We haven't had any new content since Thursday, but I assure you we'll be back at it later today. So keep checking back.

Now I'm going to get back to watching Gasland, the outstanding Oscar-nominated documentary about hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the extraction of natural gas from shale rock deep under the Earth's surface, a process used throughout the United States thanks to Dick Cheney, Halliburton, various other energy companies, and Bush's 2005 Energy Policy Act, legislation formulated largely by the oil and gas industry at Cheney's behest.

These wells are everywhere, it seems, from Wyoming to West Virginia, California to Georgia, contaminating drinking water (which can be flammable!), polluting the environment, uprooting the landscape, and poisoning the people and animals who live near them.

Gasland is enraging and terrifying -- and exceptional. I highly recommend it.

More posts on their way later. Have a good night.

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2 Comments:

  • Michael, we live in the Barnett shale area in Texas, with its attendant wells all over town. I've heard that we even have a gas pipeline under our house. Ironically, my home state of Wyoming struggles with the same gas well problems. Fracking is obviously not entirely safe.
    Happy to have Blogger back!

    By Blogger Carol Gee, at 8:23 AM  

  • So much of the country now seems to be a shale area. I had no idea just how many wells there were.

    Saying fracking is not entirely safe is an understatement.

    By Blogger Michael J.W. Stickings, at 6:05 PM  

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