Politics in the Zeros

Just because fracking debris was so radioactive that even a waste site didn’t want it is NO REASON to get alarmed and start whining like a girly man ecoterrorist that fracking could imperil water supplies or endanger human health. Really. Fracking is perfectly safe. The government and big business tells us so, therefore it must [...]

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BLM said the effects of fracking were unknown when it granted four permits in California in 2011. A judge has ruled “this is precisely why proper investigation was so crucial in this case” as says the permits are illegal. Fracking opponents in California have won what may be their first victory in court, with a [...]

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Not only is California Governor Jerry Brown, along with the federal government, intent on paving over the Mojave Desert with photovoltaic solar farms, Brown is also deliberately ignoring laws protectING  the environment so more fracking can occur. Did I say “paving over the Mojave”? Why, yes I did. The feds have offered incentives on 285,000 acres of [...]

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The renewable energy bubble was just another sector to be exploited by financial interests who had had no real interest in the companies themselves. This is made worse by the viciously mercenary renewed interest in natural gas, oil, and fracking, which is also hurting development of grid-scale renewable energy. Between money leaving renewable energy and [...]

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The mad rush to extract oil and gas from shale by fracking is on. Fears of earthquakes or contaminated water are ridiculed. Let the Bull Moose in Heat rampaging towards shale deposits begin. And all those Greenies with their dreams of a renewable energy future can go suck eggs. Nigel Lawson, Sec of Energy under [...]

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Sign the petition at Artists Against Fracking asking Gov. Cuomo not approve a fracking bill that will allow 50,000-100,000 gas wells in New York, something which will almost certainly harm the water supply. Why is fracking dangerous? Aquifer. To drill down to the shale, one must drill through the aquifer. These drills are known to [...]

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Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill banning natural gas fracking saying said “In the coming generation or two, drinking water will be more valuable than oil or natural gas.” Vermont is the the first state to ban fracking. Several countries, including France, Switzerland, and Bulgaria have also banned this noxious and dangerous [...]

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Yes, there are a lot of jobs there, the majority of them requiring no more than a high school education. North Dakota is now the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the U.S., recently passing Louisiana. At the present rate of growth, it will knock California from third place later this year. The unemployment rate in the [...]

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Who could have ever imagined that injecting high pressure water deep underground to fracture rocks could cause earthquakes? A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. Switzerland, [...]

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Companies that supply water to fracking drilling in Colorado bid higher for water in auctions than farmers did. “How do we continue to sustain agriculture when there’s just more and more demand on our water resources in this state?” said Bill Midcap, director of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. Bizarrely, fracking is considered a beneficial [...]

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