The DEC report on hydrofracking is 700 pages and hardly the kind of light reading most of you had in mind for the holiday weekend...But Governor Cuomo has quickly embraced the plan which would allow drilling in areas of upstate outside watersheds for Syracuse and the City of New York.....On the upside the economic development would create jobs and tax revenue as has happened in neighboring Pennsylvania...
The downside is environmentalists will fight it on grounds its a potentially dangerous process.
Everybody wants environmental protections, but you never know what to believe from these people....A patch of land thats wet is suddenly called a wetland and then its useless.....Cleanups of things that aren't threatening anyone while other blights and abandoned buildings go untouched.....
I just don't trust the declarations from the environmental establishment.
Leave a mound of dirt in a spot they don't like and they fine you...I have seen it happen.
So if the DEC says hydrofracking can begin, that certainly indicates only the most strident tree huggers oppose it.
the 700-plus pages
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I hope someone posts a comment using fracking as a euphemism. Tthat would be clever.
Watch this short clip and tell me that fracking is not fricked up?
Smoke your drinking water
There are lots of other films about this event. In a word, fracking is dangerous and not worth the effort, unless of course you fall for the gas and energy Ads that it's safe.
Of course we believe BP, too, right?
Dannie has already done it. He was real strident too. Great stuff. Lots of hate.
Without looking through the report yet, (I will, because I'm interested), ----
I stand on the other side of how you see it. It's the gas companies and the money people that I don't trust. Citing BP is the right thing. If 9 out of 10 operations are safety and environmentally conscious, and the 10th runs things like BP ran, (runs), theirs, ... it makes it all unacceptable. And you can be sure there's going to be those types of operations.
We won't start on the inevitability of simple mistakes and accidents yet. We'll stay with just the money-grubbing unethical part for a while.
Huge problem. It's not just your basic free market/capitalism/give me that check thing. It's one neighbor maybe wanting the cash, and accepting the risk. Then it's the guy that lives next door saying no way, it's nowhere near worth risking my water supply.
But, by not being able to do much of anything about it, the 2nd guy is forced to take on that risk that he never agreed to take.
Who wins that?
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