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EPA's target: 'fracking' firms
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | Aug 17, 2011 | Editorial

Posted on 08/17/2011 1:46:58 PM PDT by Graybeard58

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1 posted on 08/17/2011 1:47:01 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: gogogodzilla; Bockscar; Loud Mime; 4Liberty; ColdOne; JPG; Pining_4_TX; jamndad5; Biggirl; ...

Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.

If you want on or off this ping list, let me know.


2 posted on 08/17/2011 1:48:11 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The only problem some people have with tyranny is that theyÂ’re not the tyrant.)
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To: Graybeard58

It’s time for the EPA to get fracked....


3 posted on 08/17/2011 1:52:33 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: Graybeard58
Cheap energy causes the peasants to have too much freedom.

We must make the price of energy "skyrocket" to keep the peasants in their place.

And if that means manufacturing "science" to justify it, so be it.

4 posted on 08/17/2011 1:55:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Regulation is government control of capital, and government control of capital is socialism.)
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To: goodnesswins

‘It’s time for the EPA to get fracked....”

I know of a body opening where they can shove the explosive charge.


5 posted on 08/17/2011 1:57:12 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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But several years decades of fracking have yielded little evidence and no proof

Hydraulic fracturing was first used more than 100 years ago in 1903, but the first commercial fracturing treatment was performed in 1949. By some accounts it took more than 40 years for geologists and engineers to perfect the process, but since then, the pay-off has been extraordinary. Its efficacy in bringing new life to old wells quickly made it an integral part of our nation’s energy strategy, and by 1988, it had been applied more than one million times. As technology improved, hydraulic fracturing’s applications did, as well. Now, fracturing is used not only to stimulate production in old wells, but to jump start the production process in unconventional formations and in unfavorable locations. Operators now fracture about 35,000 wells each year with no record of harm to groundwater.

http://www.energyindepth.org/in-depth/frac-in-depth/history-of-hf/

6 posted on 08/17/2011 2:05:51 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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They're gonna come hard after Pennsylvania.

Especially since Republicans are running the show now...

7 posted on 08/17/2011 2:05:59 PM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: Graybeard58

Defund the bastards, make them as irrelevant as the man who follows elephants in the circus and scoops up sh##


8 posted on 08/17/2011 2:06:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Graybeard58

What is going on I think is that EPA plan to regulate emissions from stationary power plants such as drilling rig engines and pump engines on pump trucks.

They won’t be satisfied until they get their grubby hands in everything and screw it all up or just plain kill it.


9 posted on 08/17/2011 2:13:25 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Graybeard58

NO FRACK IN NY!

imho.

keeper


10 posted on 08/17/2011 2:23:04 PM PDT by keeper53
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To: ronnie raygun

If you are marching in the parade behind the elepahnts, that guy is rather important.


11 posted on 08/17/2011 2:25:42 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: keeper53
NO FRACK IN NY!

NO GAS IN NY!

imho

12 posted on 08/17/2011 2:26:55 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: keeper53
NO FRACK IN NY!

So you choose freezing in the dark?? Okay, we'll mark you down...get back to us next spring on how that worked out for you!

13 posted on 08/17/2011 2:31:20 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: thackney
Operators now fracture about 35,000 wells each year with no record of harm to groundwater.

Even the EPA itself admits this. But they will still try to outlaw/ban/price out of existence fracking.

14 posted on 08/17/2011 2:33:23 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: goodnesswins

“It’s time for the EPA to get fracked....”

With a crowbar.


15 posted on 08/17/2011 2:49:33 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Graybeard58

I am a Pennsylvania resident, living in the heart of the Marcellus Shale, Williamsport (yes, Little League World Series).

Gas drilling has been great for our economy. The industry and state are working together to create regulations when the “unexpected” happens.

We have the best private-public cooperation in the nation (OK, maybe Texas beats us).

THE EPA BETTER BUTT OUT OF OUR PROSPERITY!!!!!


16 posted on 08/17/2011 2:52:10 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: VeniVidiVici

More than a decade ago I warned that the windmills installed along the Tehachapi and Altamont passes in California were killing off the raptors. Today, in the Tehachapi the killing zone has done its job and one sees no hawks, vultures, eagles, falcons or large birds. But my oh my how the Sierra Club loves the wind farms.


17 posted on 08/17/2011 3:21:53 PM PDT by Melchior
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To: Graybeard58

Why are they (EPA) still getting Paychecks??? Where is the Bonehead on this?? NO Time for Crying here!


18 posted on 08/17/2011 3:26:55 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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For thousands of years Jews and other cultures have used fire to clean the environmental ills - because the best way to clean an oil spill at a plant or kitchen is to burn the oil in the first place.

But with carbon credits and the EPA, being clean is now being dirty...


19 posted on 08/17/2011 4:34:20 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: T-Bird45; thackney

simple ...there is more to life than $$$$$$$.
I haven’t frozen over yet! :)


20 posted on 08/17/2011 7:18:02 PM PDT by keeper53
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