Indisputable!
Most of us have no question that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health. Faced with fossil energy lobby disinformation, genuine scientists need to keep beating the drum. KEEP IT IN THE GROUND!
False Promises Divert Attention
The energy interests promote false hopes of short-term savings and hometown opportunities for good jobs. These don’t materialize, but once the permits are issued and the drilling and fracking happens, the negative effects are long term and permanent. We now know that releasing methane, burning it, or making plastic out of it all do permanent
Picture Unfettered Fossil Energy
Some of our politicians would have you believe that deregulation of energy production would be a good thing. The propaganda assures us that drilling can be done safely and won’t do harm. Our experience where the government fails to exert control is, frankly, ugly. The damage is visible, and for people who live off the
The Worst = Big Oil
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
Correlated, but Not Marcellus?
Leave it in the ground.
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.
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
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.
Necessary >> Eternal Vigilance
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.