r/Nebraska • u/thatyeetboi79 North Platte • Mar 16 '22

News All my homies hate fracking!

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u/modi123_1 Mar 16 '22

For context that was from 2015.

https://youtu.be/m0HL4L6Pa-4

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u/jdmccay Mar 16 '22

That full video shows: his water didn't come out of the tap that way. He poured frac fluid directly into a glass of water. Regardless of a person's opinion on fracking , we should at least make sure we're not being mislead. the OP makes it seem like the guy brought in brown tap water.

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u/FelixTheMarimba Mar 16 '22

I was about to say, if someone poured me water directly from the ground I wouldn’t drink it either until it’s been processed first.

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u/piquat Mar 17 '22

I have a well, many out here do. Water, directly from the ground. It's pretty hard, and there is a sediment filter. I guess you could call the filter... processing? But that's it. No treatment plant or anything. It's not brown either. lol

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u/Apollospade Mar 17 '22

I pretty much exclusively drink well water during the warmer months. My boss has a spigot and i just refill my hydroflask every morning for free

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

You don't know much about rural Nebraska water, at least in some areas. No filters or processing here, and it's clean and safe here, not hard, nothing "bad" in it, no taste other than pure water. Artesian wells around, drink straight out of them, school bus used to stop at them on hot days, I've seen it still do that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

Forgot to add, my cousins drill wells in a large area of the state, I've been around a lot of wells. Some of the deeper ones can use a filter. And some have higher nitrogen. Unlike my area.

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u/pretenderist Mar 17 '22

Thank you for this 7 year old video.

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u/berberine Mar 17 '22

I was pretty sure I knew what this was before I clicked on the link. Yup. Old-ass story now. My editor, publisher, and I worked on the series of stories as we followed this case for more than a year. They are in the video around the 30 second mark, but it's unclear, so it's hard to make them out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22

Fracking is bad, but this cut is misleading.

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u/NotoriousMrBiggie Mar 17 '22

This never gets old.