We need to keep beating the environmental drum. Even though anyone who is awake knows the role big oil continues to play in our lunge toward oblivion, we are too easily diverted from the fundamental fact that burning fuel and making single-use plastic stuff is killing the planet.
Propaganda
Here is a pro-fracking article. It appears in a publication for energy industry employees. You might ask, “Why preach to the choir?” Even people whose paychecks depend on fossil energy have consciences. The want to feel justified. So publishing stories that help them feel good about work that harms people and the environment is how the industry seeks to promote job satisfaction.
The more I know, the less honor I find in the energy industry.
Correlated, but Not Marcellus?
Old Mines and New Wells for Geothermal?
If geothermal well could avoid the problems of fracking wells such as migration of contaminants between layers of strata, this coule be a renewable source of energy that doesn’t pollute.
Study identifies 382 potential geothermal sites in Pa.
Is geothermal energy starting to see light in Harrisburg? A new state legislative study and legislation suggest a greater focus on tapping geothermal energy to help meet Pennsylvania’s energy needs. The Joint State Government Commission released a study this month identifying nearly 400 potential sites near flooded coal mines that could be tapped for geothermal […]
LNG = Huge Mistake
Not in the Public Interest
The reason for liquifying natural gas it to move it to parts of the planet where the price is better for the drillers. The domestic market is flooded, and most of us know that burning it or making plastic of it is harming generations to come, not just us. But energy companies pay nothing for these tragic collateral effects of taking gas out of shale.
As Trump Pushes Liquified Natural Gas Exports, Residents in Pennsylvania Towns Push Back to Stop a Proposed LNG Terminal – Bucks County Beacon
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas.
Tell ’em to leave it in the ground.
Fracking is Harmful
We shouldn’t need to repeat the message, but so often it seems that our legislators are dazzled by promises of unearned wealth and prosperity gushing out of a hole in the ground, they forget that we regulate this sort of thing because it damages us. When an activity is harmless, we usually let it be. When there is a hazard to life, health, or community well-being, then we constrain the offending action. Fracking is harmful it both the short and long term.
A Hot Fracking Mess: The Harms of PA’s Gas Industry
Trump’s pro-fracking policy will boost an industry that threatens us with radioactive pollution. State leaders must stand up for PA.
Keep it in the ground.
Necessary >> Eternal Vigilance
Commission got it right: Keep fracking waste out of water supply
In May, the New Mexico Water Quality Commission banned the discharge of fracking wastewater, whether treated or not, off an oil field. The decision — months in the making —
There are a lot of clever people who are well paid to keep chipping away at the regulations and regulators who protect our environment. In my view, they lack conscience and are without honor. But so long as the money if offered, they are relentless in their efforts. Defenders must be vigilant and vocal.
Pushing Back
Jobs? – Not so many
Mendacity as a Climate Strategy
Trump’s energy chief, a former fracking CEO, aims to tinker with key climate reports
He’s doing “exactly what Stalin did.”
The big lie strategy is alive and well in Washington. The Administration hopes to blunt outrage at lax policies for the fossil energy industry by institutionalizing climate denial.