Le rap des gaz de schiste

Les étudiants en journalisme de l’université de New York en partenariat avec le média américain indépendant ProPublica lancent un nouveau tube « My Water’s on Fire tonight » (« Mon eau a pris feu ce soir »)

Musique : David Holmes et Andrew Bean Chant : David Holmes et Niel Bekker Animation : Adam Sakellarides et Lisa Rucker

Paroles :

Water goes into the pipe, the pipe into the ground The pressure creates fissures 7,000 feet down The cracks release the gas that powers your town That well is fracked….. Yeah totally fracked

But there’s more in the water than just H2O Toxic chemicals help to make the fluid flow With names like benzene and formaldehyde You better keep ‘em far away from the water supply

The drillers say the fissures are a mile below The groundwater pumped into American homes But don’t tell it to the residents of Sublette Wy-O That water’s fracked…. We’re talking Benzene…

What the frack is going on with all this fracking going on I think we need some facts to come to light I know we want our energy but nothing ever comes for free I think my water’s on fire tonight

So it all goes back to 2005 Bush said gas drillers didn’t have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act, before too long It was “frack, baby, frack” until the break of dawn.

With the EPA out it was up to the states But they didn’t have the money to investigate Sick people couldn’t prove fracking was to blame All the while water wells were going up in flames

Cause it’s hard to contain all the methane released It can get into the air, it can get into the streams. It’s a greenhouse gas, worse than CO2 Fracking done wrong could lead to climate change too

Now it’s not that drillers should never be fracking But the current regulation is severely lacking Reduce the toxins, contain the gas and wastewater And the people won’t get sick and the planet won’t get hotter

What the frack is going on with all this fracking going on I think we need some facts to come to light I know we want our energy but nothing ever comes for free I think my water’s on fire tonight