Oil, natural gas and water. Every member of society depends on these resources for transportation,
heating, cooking and thousands of daily tasks.

But is our expanding demand for energy resources faithful? Recent
advances in an oil and natural gas extraction process that uses
millions of gallons of ground water, known as hydraulic fracking, have
turned Southern Illinois and it’s vast resources into a battle ground
in the fight between corporate interests who want to extract domestic
oil and natural gas reserves and those who question the long-term
consequences of hydraulic fracking on the watershed and ultimately the
health of everyone who depends on clean water.

In this addition of Sanctuary we look at faith-based organizations and
individuals who are opposed to fracking Illinois’s oil and natural gas
resources.

This is a production of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries and Tim Frakes Productions.

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This is a series of 9 videos I produced for the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) about the waste water treatment process. I worked with my friend and former ELCA colleague, Stephen Padre. RCAP works with small, rural communities to assist them in improving environmental and community health, developing sustainable water and waste-disposal facilities, increasing the capability of local leaders to address current and future needs and being in compliance with federal and state regulations for utilities. Watch the videos and learn!

Here are links to each of the videos

– Waste water Introduction
– Waste water Collection
– Solids Handling
– Preliminary Treatment
– Primary Treatment
– Secondary Treatment
– Effluent Disinfection
– Effluent Disposal
– What does it take to be an operator?

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