Frackers with dough, water drinkers got nutt'n. Frackers win.

[lonestarnot]

Water drinkers die. :(

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/opponents-fracking-disclosure-big-money-industry/

Opponents to fracking disclosure take big money from industry

By ProPublica
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 -- 6:02 pm
Congress isn’t going to regulate hydraulic fracturing any time soon. But the Department of Interior might. For starters, Interior is mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to frack wells drilled on public lands, and already the suggestion has earned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar an earful.

On January 5, a bipartisan group of 32 members of Congress, who belong to the Natural Gas Caucus, sent Salazar a letter imploringhim to resist a hasty decision because more regulations would “increase energy costs for consumers, suppress job creation in a promising energy sector, and hinder our nation’s ability to become more energy independent.”

A week later, 46 House Democrats followed up by signing a letter to Salazar urging him to at least adopt the disclosure requirement because, as Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., said, “communities across America have seen their water contaminated by the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process.”

[Angry Dragon]

1. I say

Perhaps people should start charging ceos, boards , and execs with attempted murder or murder.

[lonestarnot]

2. Somebody should yes.

[WhiteTara]

3. but who?

there's us and there's money.

[glinda]

4. There are charges in there is it is matter of guts and bravery for

persons to actually step forward on this and other issues and make charges. They are killing people and animals. They are guilty of negligence and breaking laws.

[lonestarnot]

9. Well they better hurry up!

[The Straight Story]

5. This sentence should be on every news station:

"mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to frack wells drilled on public lands"

So I can pump anything I want into public lands without disclosing what I am pumping in? Like maybe something radioactive, etc?

[DCKit]

7. Only if you're producing energy.

This is yet another unwelcome gift to U.S. from Darth Cheney, BTW.

Those secret energy meetings are one of the worst things to happen in the history of our country.

[Overseas]

6. Sad K&R. Another horrifying consequence of ignoring conservation.

I hope more people see "Gasland" http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ .

I had no idea that the eventual solution to running out of large oil deposits, getting oil from shale, would mean the pumping of chemical cocktails into the rock to force out the oil.

I hope constituents in the areas where fracking occurs will get their legislators to move on more massive conservation projects to preserve more of the oil we use so the public won't feel forced to push on with this dangerous extraction method.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Kurovski]

10. K&R. (nt)