Down goes the drill bit into the ground, cutting out the shaft kilometres down
A sideways turn, kilometres on, fractures the rocks with a ‘perforation gun’
The high-pressure mix is pumped down the hole, pushed between the rocks is a gel-like ooze
Up comes the methane off to be burned - 25 times more climate changing than C02
(It’s the most potent, climate changing gas there is)
Down goes the pipe, better get it right, cos if it goes wrong it could spill out of sight
Into the aquifer, which won’t be very nice, and your tap water could set on fire
Could set on fire
8 million litres of water, 200,000 litres of chemicals,
some are toxic, poisonous, carcinogenic, corrosive and highly flammable
Up from the earth comes half of the mixture but now it’s radioactive with arsenic and lead
millions of years of geological processes - produced something so toxic it could kill you dead
Half of the fluid stays in the ground, at least we presume, there’s no long-term research
the high-energy consumption of the process will be over before the environment is left in the lurch
Half of the fluid is taken to be ‘treated’ but they can’t remove the toxic chemical risk
It’s taken to be dumped into the river with the otters, voles, the birds and the fish
Hydrochloric acid, ethylene glycol, formic acid, benzene,
lauryl sulphate, sodium erythorbate - we’ve got to stop fracking before it’s too late
Cos there is no safe protection from the frac-fluid, only for the corporate investor
Are the unforeseen environmental consequences worth brutality towards the protester?
Contaminated drinking water, limited knowledge of seismology
This short-term, poisonous, toxic, corrosive, carcinogenic, radioactive process is pure folly!
So put the pressure on, the government are wrong,
they have lackeys, but we have right on our side
Do what you can to cause a fracking ban -
create a future from which you don’t wanna hide
Stöj Snak is a SCREAMER-SONGWRITER project from Aalborg, DENMARK.
Musically and
creatively Stöj Snak is shaped by the punk scene. And though Stöj Snak is a step away from punk and the limitations of a traditional band, the political engagement, raw energy and anarchistic DIY approach is still very visible in the songwriting....more
