Posted on 06/30/2011 7:42:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You're Ian Urbina, a senior New York Times reporter. In February and March you write that hydraulic fracturing, a method of natural gas extraction, is contaminating Pennsylvania drinking water. Your accusations are subsequently disproved by government tests.
What do you write next?
You write a three-part series in the Times saying that shale gas production is "inherently unprofitable" and a giant Ponzi scheme, as well as loosely-regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
No matter that many emails you cite quoting industry managers, geologists, government officials, and market analysts are two years old. No matter that two of your supposedly objective sources are environmental activists. No matter that profit-maximizing companies are investing billions of dollars in shale gas.
Over the weekend and on Monday The New York Times ran a three-part series by Mr. Urbina on the bullish outlook for natural gas production in the United States and questioned whether some industry officials and analysts are too optimistic.
The article's timing is significant. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation will soon issue a new Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement that will decide whether New York State will allow hydrofracturing within its borders in order to tap the Marcellus and Utica Shales.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearmarkets.com ...
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Quite often, articles like this are meant to influence government far more than to inform the public.
One hint that is the case is when a particularly slanted article appears seemingly out of the blue and out of any other news context. That is a good sign that some important government body is going to hold hearings or a vote on a law or regulation.
This is yet one more proof of how corrupt our “news” media has become. No wonder people are fleeing the MSM in droves.
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The socialists have managed to work with the islamists to limit oil production, keeping prices high while alternative energy acts as a conduit of taxpayer money back into liberal political warchests.
But with natural gas, the fear-mongering and disinformation is not working.
Capitalism now has another, abundant source of fuel and that scares the hell out of liberals.
Therefore, liberals will pull every trick out of their hat to try and stop this.
The socialists have managed to work with the islamists to limit oil production, keeping prices high while alternative energy acts as a conduit of taxpayer money back into liberal political warchests.
But with natural gas, the fear-mongering and disinformation is not working.
Capitalism now has another, abundant source of fuel and that scares the hell out of liberals.
Therefore, liberals will pull every trick out of their hat to try and stop this.
New York to Allow Fracking: Report
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11171977/1/new-york-to-allow-fracking-report.html?cm_ven=RSSFeed
Hmmmm....I will pass this along to a guy right up the road whose 2-acre pond turned rusty brown and tests positive for the chemicals. I’ll also pass it along to my friend who has water brought in now because her well has been contaminated and tests positive for the same chemicals.
I’ll also pass it along to all the fisherman who can’t fish in a local County Park Lake because the fish have died.
They will be SO GLAD to know that The Government has stepped in to do a study to declare this all Safe and what they have experienced is just a figment of their imagination.
(Will also tell France that they jumped the gun to ban fracking...it’s OK! It’s Safe!)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=france-bans-fracking-2011-06-30
OF COURSE the government will disprove the tests. Do you realize how much tax revenue is being collected before the gas is even distributed from the ground?
OF COURSE the government will disprove the accusations. Do you realize how much tax revenue is being collected before the gas is even distributed from the ground?
WOw! Where do you live? Sounds like a real hell-hole. Do you have details? Or not?
“her well has been contaminated and tests positive for the same chemicals.”
What chemicals are you talking about?
Fracking mud is made up with propiatory ingrediants which means the public does not have access to.
This sounds like a cock and bull story.
The vote in France was right down the socialist party line.
What chemicals were found in these places? Where was this?
I’m an senior engineer working in the south Texas Eagle Ford shale trend right now and many inquiring minds here would REALLY like to know EXACTLY just what chemicals you’re talking about. I call its all BS.
Nice job of dumping completely unsourceable anecdotes into the thread. And bringing in liberal agitprop from Scientific American as well.
Now, maybe you could hit the trifecta by linking to a Youtube segment from Gasland of water catching fire - you know, water from Colorado that admittedly is from a well far away from any fracking activity.
Capitalism now has another, abundant source of fuel and that scares the hell out of liberals.They hate us and the prospect of prosperity. They want us living in caves, riding donkeys, and eating turnips.
They simply hate the power that comes with prosperity....power that is not in their hands.
I’m loving the prospect of CNG cars.
Fuel up in the garage and sneer at the coming gasoline rationing lines, LOL.
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