{"id":1299,"date":"2012-03-03T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2012-03-03T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:48:13","slug":"why-are-the-public-so-unaware-of-their-childrens-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-are-the-public-so-unaware-of-their-childrens-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the public so unaware of their childrens safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Panacea thats now how some see it<br \/>\nThe new and easy source of natural gas<br \/>\nNo one charging what they like and threatening to raise<br \/>\nIts locally produced in fact<br \/>\nand so worthy of praise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">America is out ahead, bore holes everywhere<br \/>\nMarcellus shale, just leaves me pale<br \/>\nWith feelings of despair<br \/>\nI am old and weary, the repercussions they<br \/>\nWill not affect me actually, its the children<br \/>\nthat will pay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">People have been suffering,and some<br \/>\nhave lost a lot<br \/>\nFresh water from the taps, not any more<br \/>\noh! no they&#8217;ve got<br \/>\nContaminated water, undrinkable alas<br \/>\nAquifers are being breached<br \/>\nand lakes an pools, en masse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Destroyed by fracking chemicals<br \/>\nThe water loss immense<br \/>\nPotable not ever<br \/>\nYou see it makes no sense<br \/>\nIts very very selfish in a world<br \/>\nwhere water&#8217;s scarce<br \/>\nAlready we see people grubbiing in the mud<br \/>\nno purse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Deep enough to find the water that once<br \/>\nmight have been<br \/>\nFlowing from that wondrous ground<br \/>\nFrom those verdant slopes of green<br \/>\nSome are being forced each day to <a id=\"_GPLITA_1\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cooksdelight.co.uk\/poems\/printview.htm?id=5593#\">drink<\/a><br \/>\nsome nasty stuff<br \/>\nAnd America is wasting much more than enough<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each drill hole can take 13 million<br \/>\ngallons<br \/>\nActually from 2, to 13 in effect<br \/>\nLaced with such obnoxious filthy chemicals<br \/>\nNothing any of us living dare expect<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Its sucked up from the shale<br \/>\nand stored in ponds and then<br \/>\nShipped by tanker into deeper wells<br \/>\nby ignorant men<br \/>\nIt gets into the water, it comes back to our land<br \/>\nRadon, radiation and a cocktail most can&#8217;t stand<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But honestly for fear of panicking readers<br \/>\nit is true<br \/>\nFracking is an evil that is going to hurt you<br \/>\n<a id=\"_GPLITA_2\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cooksdelight.co.uk\/poems\/printview.htm?id=5593#\">Bradford<\/a> County, Pennysylvania see hell on earth Today<br \/>\nInsanity is clearly in the souls of men I&#8217;d say<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Compounded by those dollar <a id=\"_GPLITA_0\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cooksdelight.co.uk\/poems\/printview.htm?id=5593#\">bills<\/a><br \/>\nBut my God what they do<br \/>\nIs completly screw up environments<br \/>\nyea and your land too<br \/>\nImagine 40,000 gallons of some toxic stew<br \/>\nThat bubbles out of no where<br \/>\nYes mate all over you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your land, your house, your garden<br \/>\nthe ponds, the rivers too<br \/>\nThe reservoirs, it soaks into the earth<br \/>\nthis frightening brew<br \/>\nAnd forever it will stay there it does not<br \/>\nbiodegrade<br \/>\nShale gas leaves its legacy<br \/>\nwhich will just never fade<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And as we waste much energy in fracturing our food<br \/>\nOur children will be forced to watch<br \/>\nThe toxins just exude<br \/>\nFrom them, this is the evil<br \/>\nThat we shall leave behind<br \/>\nA few made heaps of money<br \/>\nbut the rest of us were blind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had eyes, but we failed to see<br \/>\nWe had souls but destroyed<br \/>\nEverything around us<br \/>\nWhich our children can&#8217;t avoid<br \/>\nFor cancers and leukamia<br \/>\nWill be rampant, in every <a id=\"_GPLITA_3\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cooksdelight.co.uk\/poems\/printview.htm?id=5593#\">school<\/a><br \/>\nDeath will march on in there<br \/>\nand take out, one and all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t let the bastards do it<br \/>\nBe man enough to say<br \/>\nTake your fracking chemicals<br \/>\nand just go on your way<br \/>\nOur homelands are so sacred<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d rather now use less<br \/>\nThan let you turn our precious<br \/>\nland into a complete mess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a technology that is so wasteful of natural god given resources. 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