PA Residents Shoulder Health Impacts of State’s Oil and Gas Waste
Our state and federal government provide both cash and less obvious forms of support for the fossil fuel industry. Among these is the privilege of degrading the environment, acquiring right-of-way through eminent domain, and destructively using infrastructure built at public expense without direct compensation to those affected.
The current PSE Quarterly documents some of the ways quality of life is harmed by extraction operations.
PSE Energy Quarterly | Spring 2019
PSE Energy Quarterly is the newsletter of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute dedicated to supplying evidence-based scientific and technical information on the public health, environmental, and climate dimensions of energy production and use.
The greedy, dirty, profit addicted fossil fuel industry, gets $10 million in tax subsidies from the Federal government, because they lobbied, or rather bought our elected representatives in the Congress, despite record profits. They continue to sell and brainwash the public on the airwaves and in the press that climate change is not “settled science” and global warming is a “hoax.” How much profit is enough? Fossil fuel is just like nuclear power. It is too dangerous, too expensive and totally unnecessary for our energy needs. If you go to http://thesolutionsproject.org/ or to http:/rmi.org/ you will see that we have the technology and the natural resources to transition to a renewable, safe energy future without fossil fuel or nuclear power. All we lack is the political will because the for profit energy industry has bought out our elected leaders from both parties on both the Federal and State level. Contrary to their propaganda, we will not “starve and freeze in the dark,” nor “wreck our economy” in the process to transitioning to a renewable energy economy by 2050. Germany and other nations around the world are doing that and will get to a self sustaining, energy efficient, self sufficient and renewable energy economy by 2030.
We need to do more than that. We have to capture and sequester carbon dioxide and prepare for flooding from sea level rise, weather pattern changes and extreme storms or droughts. This will not be cheap. That is why just promoting renewable energy, carbon dividend, carbon tax and other measures are not enough for us to survive and mitigate climate change. We have to do more. We are running out of time to stop the disastrous effects of climate change and try to reverse and mitigate its impacts.