MAN DISCOVERS HIS TAP WATER IS FLAMMABLE - MOST LIKELY CAUSED BY FRACKING IN THE AREA.

North Dakota man discovers his tap water is flammable… and he has been washing his teeth and bathing in it for years.

Jacob Haughney saw flames erupting from bathroom tap

Phenomenon is caused by hydrolic fracturing or 'fracking', some warn

North Dakota, home to just 700,000 people, is the center of a fracking boom

State is now the second largest oil-producing state in America

 

A stunned homeowner has filmed himself setting fire to highly flammable water gushing from his bathroom tap.  In the clip uploaded to YouTube, Jacob Haughney produces a intensely bright yellow fireball to erupt from a flowing tap by putting a lighter flame to the liquid.  Mr Haughney, who works on oil fields near his home in North Dakota, discovered the worrying phenomenon while in the shower. 

 

FRACKING  is the process by which natural gas is extracted by using water, sand and toxic chemicals injected at high pressure into oil of methane gas deposits to fracture the rock above and release the liquid or gas below. 

 

Fracking involves releasing natural gas trapped in shale formations by blasting a mix of water, sand and chemicals into the rock.  It has unlocked reserves that could supply the U.S. for 100 years, although environmentalists say that fracking can contaminate water supplies.

 

Read more and watch video - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531083/Dakota-man-discovers-tap-water-flammable.html
 

RELATED

 

More on fracking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

Questions and answers about fracking - http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking

Anti-fracking activism in America - http://ecowatch.com/p/energy/fracking-2/
 

More on fracking on this blog - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Fracking

 

 

DOES HE ALSO DRINK THAT WATER?  IF SO, WHAT IS IT DOING TO HIS INSIDES?

 

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