"Fracking is perfectly fine...unless it is in my back yard" - Rex Tillerson

[rb336]

The new poster boy for hypocrisy:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/21/exxo...roperty_value/

[MikeM]

If you would look any deeper into the issue you would find that the case is about the height of the proposed water tower exceeding that allowed by the local zoning ordinances.

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/208446910?width=800

[JBMcB]

Pfffft, naw. We really need to end fracking. Getting all this dirt-cheap natural gas is just crazy. What we really need to do is start importing our natural gas from a nice stable, friendly country, like Russia.

[rb336]

Pfffft, naw. We really need to end fracking. Getting all this dirt-cheap natural gas is just crazy. What we really need to do is start importing our natural gas from a nice stable, friendly country, like Russia.

yeah, clean drinking water kinda sucks. who needs it? certainly not the people in WV, Utah and other states

[noise]

Pfffft, naw. We really need to end fracking. Getting all this dirt-cheap natural gas is just crazy. What we really need to do is start importing our natural gas from a nice stable, friendly country, like Russia.

As long as it's mine and it's cheap, who cares about the consequences?!?

[Honky Tonk]

Earthquakes and landslides are not only fun, they're good for the economy! Drinking water? It can be purchased @ your local grocery store.

[Papasito]

Environmentalists....

They whine about oil while typing on keyboards made from plastics, talking on cell phones made of plastics.

They complain about how dirty coal is, so power plants turn to natural gas.

Then they complain about the process necessary to get the natural gas.

What is their end goal? The extinction of the human race so the world will live? It wouldn't surprise me if they are behind the FEMA camps and the future human purge.

[oladub]

I live in Western Wisconsin which is being strip mined for sand for fracking. Sand is forced into fracking wells to force out the more valuable resources. There are now over 100 planned or operating sand strip mines in western Wisconsin occupying hundreds of acres each. This is land that once produced dairy or forest products. There are some temporary truck driving and excavating jobs but even after reclamation efforts, this land will have lower production from now until the next glaciers come along resulting in a long term loss of jobs. The profits go out of state to the owners of these strip mines. These are 24 hour a day operations with a lot of dust and heavy truck traffic. So while I don't see or experience bad wells, minor earthquakes, and other much manifestations of fracking, good farmland is being sacrificed for some quick profits.

The amount of fracking will also increase if the federal government uses Ukraine as an excuse to subsidize or fast track LNG export facilities. Exporting LNG will also raise the cost of natural gas for Americans because LNG export will increase demand. Higher natural gas prices will show up in monthly heating and electrical bills, higher fertilizer costs, and lost jobs. Those LNG export terminals are about energy company profits not our energy independence and will hasten the day when we will be out of cheap natural gas.

[Papasito]

Hydro power could be developed from natural ocean currents.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past...d-ocean-energy
Giant wind turbines can replace or supplement traditional power plants.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news...wind-turbines/
Steam powered engines are hundreds of years old, why are our cars not running on them?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-e...owered-car.htm
Why are solar farms not more widespread?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_farm

If these are sound investments then the opportunities should be gobbled up by private enterprise.