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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeaBaggers have been DEMANDING for years that WH allow fracking companies to lease public lands.
GOP voter base and teabaggers have been turning against landowners and their rights in GOP run states where the Koch Brothers want landowners to be FORCED to allow fracking.
LOL at the NWO Republicans and their TeaBagger water carriers whining about fracking on public lands in Nevada.
They don't care about Koch Brothers and other corporate frackers and the NWO Republican governors taking away even PRIVATE landowners' rights, so, why do they pretend to care about this fracking lease on public lands?
I have been against ALL fracking on public and private lands. The tea baggers working for Koch Industries and their interests against private landowners and now pretending to be outraged for the very leasing of public lands they were demanding up until a few days ago is just pure hypocrisy.
There was NO outrage from tea baggers over NCGOP's attacks on landowners.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/28/4271195/officials-ok-rule-to-force-fracking.html#.U0f5EznpfmI
Officials OK rule to force fracking on NC landowners
RALEIGH North Carolina landowners would be forced to sell the natural gas under their homes and farms whether they want to or not under a fracking recommendation approved Wednesday thats expected to be enacted by the state legislature this fall.
The proposal by a state study group endorses a rarely used 1945 law thats never been tried here on the kind of scale that would be required for shale gas exploration, or fracking. Thousands of property owners could potentially be affected in the states gas-rich midsection in Lee, Moore and Chatham counties.
The recommendation, dealing with one of the most emotional fracking issues, bypasses the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission, which holds regular public hearings on protecting the public and safeguarding the environment, and goes directly to the legislature.
We are talking about a for-profit industry taking away personal freedoms with the blessing of the government, Therese Vick, a community activist with the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, told the Compulsory Pooling Study Group. Personal freedoms are seldom on the radar when the gas companies come to town.
The panel does include four members of the Mining and Energy Commission, some of whom were deeply conflicted.
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)before the mid-terms.
We don't really have a choice except vote for the least worse because they are better on social issues.
All we can hope for are law suits to try to delay the Fracking.
blm
(113,063 posts)They want the bulk of the profits to go to the frackers while the bulk of the pollution and pain goes to the landowners.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)When we allow companies to go in on Public land that depresses the prices people get for their mineral rights when they sell them on their private land.
The Keystone XL if built will add more energy to the mix and also depress prices for private landowners.
I'm personally against fracking and the Keystone XL, but from a populist standpoint the government should not be in the business of depressing prices so big companies can make more money by volume where small private landowners get less for their coal, oil, gas, or timber.
blm
(113,063 posts).