The Trump Administration is loath to admit that climate change is real and is man-made. I was surprised to see this article in WaPo this morning. One can only hope that the weather extremes and related human catastrophes have become too horrendous for denial to persist as a viable strategy for fossil-backed politicians.
I should not need to explain why this is relevant to fracking, but I will. Fracking and the pipelines that bring its products to market disrupt the lives of those in their path, damage air quality, pollute the water, and consume precious freshwater resources. Energy producers seek to justify the use of our government’s sovereign powers (land condemnation, permitting for pollution, etc.) on the basis that it is a public necessity akin to highways and railroads. Clearly, this is not the case in Pennsylvania. There is a glut of natural gas produced and distributed by thousands of existing wells and about 50,000 miles of existing pipelines. Moreover, the products produced by the extraction of this fossil energy will produce MORE GLOBAL WARMING. And, because they are so cheap, they will discourage the development and deployment of renewable energy.
Read more at the Washington Post.
With more pipelines, more wells and more fracking, comes LNG or Liquified Natural Gas for export. LNG leak, can cause explosions, are a terrorist target and add to global warming. The greedy, profit addicted fossil fuel industry use of eminent domain for pipelines, pumpint stations and more wells just leads to more green house gas emmissions. Why are we trying to export natural gas from fracking? I thought we needed it as a “transition fuel” until renewable energy is ready and for our “energy independence.” How much profit is enough with these companies? The fossil fuel will not stop until every drop of oil, cubic foot of natural gas, aqnd ounce of coal is extracted from the earth. Can have anything stand in their way of their almighty profits.