The reason? Conflicts of interest and major errors.
If fracking were safe for our water supply, why did they spend so much money forcing through exemption from compliance with clean water regulation????????????
It is not like we have been badly informed in the past about the safety of chemicals. This is true not only of DDT, and HRT, but things like Thalidomide. Where there is an agenda, as has been the case with the way that the fracking industry pushed through their special exemptions and got their subsidies under Dick Cheney during the corrupt Bush administration in this regard, which should raise red flags for everyone who drinks water or breathes air.
If fracking were safe for our water supply, why did they spend so much money forcing through exemption from compliance with clean water regulation????????????
It is not like we have been badly informed in the past about the safety of chemicals. This is true not only of DDT, and HRT, but things like Thalidomide. Where there is an agenda, as has been the case with the way that the fracking industry pushed through their special exemptions and got their subsidies under Dick Cheney during the corrupt Bush administration in this regard, which should raise red flags for everyone who drinks water or breathes air.
There are thousands of wells, on paper, at least in this neck of the woods.
ReplyDeletePennsylvania, with it's history of selling out the interests of the people for short term monetary (and political gain) has shills appearing in ads for the companies that want to frack all around the Finger Lakes, an area with pristine water for the most part, telling us all what an economic boon it will be to locals and oh, so SAFE. This in spite of the fact that Centralia, PA is a ghost town with an uncontrolled coal fire burning underneath what were the homes and businesses in the town, was created by the same industry.
When the energy extraction aholes can put their money where their mouths are and guarantee, not safety, but rather, indemnity for the residents of the areas they want to frack in--then I'll think that they might have a plan that isn't limited to making money for themselves and misery for the rest of us.
It is time to realize that there are scientists who have sold out to big oil and gas, and that there is no such thing as 'clean' coal either.
ReplyDeleteFossil fuels are over; they are the walking dead, just waiting for the realization to sink in for them to fall over and disappear.
Those who can't cope with change do badly with these realities. But they are becoming an increasingly urgent reality.
I hope that the temptation of quick money doesn't win out, that the horrible reality of fracking is increasingly better understood.
This withdrawal, the scientist who was responsible leaving the university -- that is serious. It is on a par with the global warming support and acceptance from the major former skeptic scientists.
Only the few die hard willful ignorant still deny either global warming, or claim that fracking is safe. This has 'fracked' the safe claims into tiny tiny shards.