Natural Gas Hydrofracking Terms Inference Matrix 18 – Hydrofracking Well Contamination

This dataset is an attempt to find references on the Internet in web pages and online .PDF documents of water well
and water supplies in general contamination with chemicals and/or natural gas (methane) explicitly as a result from
natural gas extraction via Hydrofracking.

This is the first Inference Matrix dataset for well contamination and future ones with refinement in the search terms
hopefully will lead to readily available data that might shed some light in these and other topics:

• Any instances of well water contamination where water infested with natural gas made for water that was of course
  not potable and inflammable before the advent of Hydrofracking in the area of the affected landowner (family) i.e.
  the now (in)famous exploding kitchen sink scenes in Gasland.

• The actual names of and then the concentrations of the chemicals involved in Hydrofracking winding up in landowner’s
  (family’s) drinking water. Again referring to Gasland documentary there was a scene where the film’s producer Josh
  Fox had a test results of the water from a sample he was given. He rattled off several obscure ones that could only have
  been from Hydrofracking, but not the concentrations.

• The extent and/or the severity of the given contamination instances.

• References to settlements the natural gas industry has had to pay for ruin of property and/or water water supplies,
  health claims etc.

I think it is fair that all instances in these regards be meticulously cataloged, carefully documented for accuracy and
corroborated and put into a central database for easy access.

The “Inference matrix” is a powerful reformat of the “base data” I generate from my app where from inference or extrapolation of currently up to 255 terms the user can make an unprecedentedly accurate determination if the given web page or online. PDF document warrants further scrutiny and examination.

The “terms” can be any combination of proper, place or company names, technical, medical or generic terms and/or just "regular words in any language or better put any language’s alphabet or character set that is represented on the Internet.

The idea is basic search terms are put through a search engine and then respectively for each of the each web page or online PDF document links (URLs) that are returned (i.e. search results), the HTML or text of the given web page/PDF doc is further searched for the presence of the up to 255 user names, terms and words just mentioned; the maximum number of columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

There are currently several free examples here on Infochimps.com that should give you a better idea of gist. These examples are the standard format where the web page URL/link is the “key” and the terms are associated with the web page.

http://infochimps.org/datasets/ex-oakland-raiders-jamarcus-russells-large-internet-footprint
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/native-arabic-internet-footprint-of-the-washington-institute-mid

The new format has the terms as the key and the URLs/links as the data. Thus, if you want to quickly see the Internet presence or “Internet footprint” of a Hydrofracking chemical that may be the root of your rare form of cancer you look down the column of the Excel file. If you quickly want to see other chemical names that may be on the same web page or .PDF doc, you look at the rows.

For those of you familiar with Microsoft Excel I want to remind you of and for those of you new to Excel I want to relate to you a nifty Excel feature that will enhance your viewing of these Hydrofracking Inference Matrices.

It is the “Freeze Frame” feature. The idea here is to freeze the first row of the spreadsheet which are located all the “Auxiliary” terms which are the headers for the columns containing the URLs/links that contain the given Auxiliary term.

Thus as you scroll down you don’t need to make time consuming notes what column is for what Auxiliary term or constantly return to row 1 for reference.

To implement the Freeze frame by an easy keyboard sequence first set set your Excel focus (cursor) to Cell B1. Now press [Alt][w] in combination as you press the [Shift] key to capitalize a letter. An Excel drop down menu should appear showing Freeze Panes with the F of Freeze underlined. Now merely press F. The case does not matter for the W or F.

There – The first row should be frozen as you scroll down the spreadsheet. To undo just repeat the two step procedure.

As you probably know Hydrofracking abounds with controversy. The Inference Matrix is an unprecedented tool to get to the web pages
closest to or exactly in the ballpark of your interest.

The “Primary” search terms for this dataset are: Hydrofracking Well Contamination

The “Auxiliary” search terms for this dataset: those that are searches for their presence from each URL (web page, online .PDF document) returned from the search engine search results of the Primary terms are:

absorption acute biodegradation birth buffalo burns cancer carcinogenic chemical company compound concentration contaminate contamination corrosive damage dangerous decontaminate decontamination defects denial deny dismiss drinking effects embryo embryonic EPA exposure fetus fined gas guidelines hazardous health highly Hydrofracking IARC index indicator inhaled injection irritant isothiazotin kidney lawsuit liquid liver lung natural noxious NTP occupational OGAP OSHA oxidative presence produced prolonged rate rating reaction reactive respiratory safety settlement solid soluability synthetic teratogenic teratogenicity toxic toxicity unsuitable used vapor viscous warning water well

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