So, I am lookin at screw type log splitters on You Tube for any ideas I can use and I see a frackin video by ******** Oil! ??? Why does that appear? Odd innit?

The ad says frackin has been tried and true and tested for years! and here's how it SAFELY works! and Canada has enough gas for 100 years! Canada? Why does the ad cite Canada? Odd innit?

Only thing is, I don't think it takes a soils engineer's hat (I just happen to have one of those in my engineering hat collection) to pause and ask, "Gee Mister Oilyman, what about ALL of the gas in the shale layer that lies above the extraction pipe? Praytell, where does SOME of that gas go and when does it go there?" If I was to take wild guesses, I would say "up" and "immediately".

YT "Hydraulic Fracturing: How it works". Just don't say the name in this thread. It'll take them longer to find you.

Of course, as to when it will get to the water above and, eventually, to the surface, well, that depends on all the strata above the shale layer. Could take a thousand years or it could get there just after Mr. Oilyman leaves and has no assets to be siezed by a court of law to pay for fouling the water and the land above his extraction pipe.

Even if the frackin gas fouled the water before the well ran dry, Mr. Oilyman is cool because he's only responsible for fouling water wells less than one spit metres away from his well, which begs my next question, that being, "Thanks for all the reassuraces, Mr. Oilyman, but why is water testing only done on water wells within one spit metres of your gas well when your frackin pipe goes a load a spit metres further than that? Why isn't water testing done on the entire aquifer that may be affected by the fact that natural gas is lighter than water?"

I may be paranoid for wondering why an advert by Imperial Oil appears on my YT search for logsplitters but I am rather "scared" by the inattention to detail of anyone who doesn't realize that natural gas is lighter than water and EVENTUALLY will get to where it is required to go by the simple laws of physics.

Your mileage may vary.

Oh, BTW, IF they frack us, I am applying for a job. Gonna need the coin if I have to move. Gotta make hay while the sun... still shines.