lundi, juillet 12, 2010

Coming back on a disturbing tweet (Gasland preview)

That was yesterday, while my wife was watching football, I had some inspiration on checking my tweet board (I love these processing plug-ins on firefox that digests the tweets, FB and all that you subscribe for... quite handy). I came across some disturbing news, because it somewhat very closely relates to my job...I first got indignated like most of you would be if you listened to that. But now wait  minute and let us try to process the info. It talks about bad corporations trying to drill for more gas to the depend of the poor locals (Americans for a change). The poor local vs. the bad rich corporate, a classic. It seems right at first and I plunged myself into it without even a breathe. But now I want to see a trend, as we have Michael Moore, Al Gore, "Food Inc." and now Gasland... it seems we live in Robocop land with white sharks in gray suits laughing when the mass cry silently in the dark. I'm not sure anymore. Information is so easy to manipulate, and I am seeing a lot since BP Oil Spill from these alternate websites that it scares me so much it "seems" real. That video-preview shows that the guys are frac'ing (something I earn money from... basically) without any previous survey first. I mean it is a No-Go for any of us here. If you don't no about the formation, there are surveys first, models. Is this for real?? Is it that negligence is taking over from professionalism? Or is it some ex-Greenpeace guy with a complex of inferiority that wants so bad to be famous on the one trend he knows that he's going to deform  reality and manipulate images and information to it's own use? The part when the guy torches it's own tap when the water comes out for me doesn't make sense if water comes out from a pipe, that same water did not come from the rock reservoir but from a treatment plant so it has enough time to degas if there was any... Does this problem come from something else? Then they are targeting the wrong people and shooting an easy target, the one that has the least good public image (and for a good reason). But now all the other bad guys hide behind this one... I mean one more tomato in the face wont be much of a problem if you already received 100. Still that ain't very fair playing, especially when you pretend to play as the poor cheated ones. So I am not very convinced anymore by this tweet and will keep it as a "need to be reviewed". I wish some guys from that side of the theory answer me, that would B great, I love polemics anyways!! ;-P