60 Minutes On The Dangers Of Fracking

By Dan DeBaun

This past Sunday, 60 minutes ran a news piece on the controversial practice of fracking. Fracking is a process that results in the fracturing of rock to gain access to natural gas and oil. We've reported in the past that this practice has resulted in incidents of water contamination across the country. Chemicals that are used for fracking seep into and contaminate water supplies, and natural gas leaks into water aquifers causing a phenomenon called "Tap Water Catching on Fire". Watch the piece below to learn more.

Dan DeBaun

Dan DeBaun

Dan DeBaun is the owner and operator of Big Berkey Water Filters. Prior to Berkey, Dan was an asset manager for a major telecommunications company. He graduated from Rutgers with an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering, followed by an MBA in finance from Rutgers as well. Dan enjoys biohacking, exercising, meditation, beach life, and spending time with family and friends.

~ The Owner of Big Berkey Water Filters

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  • Avatar of mahfuj mahfuj 2011-08-02 08:53:33

    Fracking is just one of the many dangers posed to our natural sources of drinking water today, so we should concerned about it.

  • Avatar of Water Filter Reviews Water Filter Reviews 2011-07-25 04:32:57

    Fracking is just one of the many dangers posed to our natural sources of drinking water today. The worst is those third world countries where factories are allowed to dump their shit into the sea and river because the corruption that is running rampant.

  • Avatar of Perry Torrance Perry Torrance 2011-03-25 12:22:35

    Steve an astroturfing for Big Oil.

    Astroturfing - look it up - is the use of agents employed to argue the point of corporates attacked on blogs and in forums. These opinions are supposed to appear independent, but are, in fact, not.

    The war against truth has migrated to the web.

    Believe it.

  • Avatar of victor victor 2011-01-29 15:59:48

    Get the documentary GASLANDS. Enough said.

  • Avatar of Yahannah Yisrael Yahannah Yisrael 2011-01-25 18:15:30

    I would like to know if fracking also causes sink holes. It appears that sink holes are most always found where the oil industry is BIG! As in Wink, Texas. Any comments???

  • Avatar of Daryl Daryl 2011-01-23 05:18:52

    Hey now, I'm super conservative, and even I agree that fracking in it's current form is rape of the earth. I live where this is going on now. Steve either is lucky, ignorant, or cheer-leading.

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  • Avatar of Mtnhippie Mtnhippie 2011-01-08 19:17:35

    Sounds like Steve is an environment hating con. The problems of natural gas fracking are well documented but why should he believe studies as conservatives don't believe in science either. Fracking has poisoned wells across the country from Dimmock, PA to Colorado. Look at this history of oil extraction and you'll see that only when "we the people", as government, carefully regulate the corporate capitalists do we have any degree of environmental protection. Of course, Steve won't understand that because cons don't believe in big gov'ment unless it's run for, of and by the rich.

  • Avatar of shane shane 2010-12-17 03:28:29

    steve albright must think that 60 minutes hired those people to pretend that their water explodes. 60 minutes is a left wing yahoo outfit, but they get it right sometimes. Why would halliburton not tell the epa what chemicals they use? If its not safe, then its not safe, 60 minutes or not.

  • Avatar of steve steve 2010-12-06 20:50:59

    Anybody that believes mainstream media like 60 minutes tell the truth about anything is living in dreamland. I live in ND where this is a common practice and have never heard of anybody having these problems. The main problems we have are getting the oil drilling companies to clean up the surface where they have drilled and not a lot of those problems, either. We need the energy and if we could drill in all the places here in the US where oil is found we wouldn't need the foreign oil that people whine about. We do, however have thousands of windmills and the companies that assemble them are no goody-two-shoes as far as land use goes, either. Plus the windmills kill many migratory birds and bats and really don't provide that much energy.

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