"Water of love, deep in the ground. No water here to be found ..." Is what Mr. Knopfler sings. I was thinking of fracking last night, and the incredibly far reaching havoc it causes. Some people in the US can actually lighten their tap water, because it contains so much methane: fracking reaching in a little to far in the wrong direction. Fracking is endangering our source of life at devastating speed anywhere a big conglomerate gets permission to frack and push tons of chemicals into the ground.
By some clever twisting of law by some high earning lawyers, fracking companies can keep their chemical fracking cocktails a secret, supposedly along the same lines of reasoning Coca Cola doesn't have to publish their exact formula. They argue it is their intellectual property. This leaves environmentalists guessing at exactly how toxic the mix is, but one thing is for sure, it is no good for our water deep in the ground.
That's a short version of the background of a thought I had ... In Europe, so far at least, the multi nationals have not been able to get a green light for fracking. Although in some areas there is opposition in the US as well (especially in the north), conglomerates are fracking away like there is no tomorrow. Could it be that Europeans actually still have some spiritual connection to their land. Some energy we all thought is long gone? I like this idea, that we somehow have a collective consciousness, that stops us from harming our water deep in the ground ... Ask any American Indian what he thinks about fracking, the answer will surely be a smarter one than one coming from somebody making money with this incredibly stupid idea of destroying what we depend on ...
That is not to say that there is no opposition in the US. There is, and I hope there will be more once there is more awareness for the irreparable damages fracking can do to the water deep in the ground. Which is the same water that someday runs out of an American tap somewhere, which is the same water that runs out of any tap somewhere on our blue planet ...