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blm

(113,063 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 12:44 PM Apr 2014

TeaBaggers 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 that’s expected to be enacted by the state legislature this fall.

The proposal by a state study group endorses a rarely used 1945 law that’s 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 state’s 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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TeaBaggers have been DEMANDING for years that WH allow fracking companies to lease public lands. (Original Post) blm Apr 2014 OP
Explains why Kay Hagan was one of 11 Dems urging Obama to make Keystone Decision KoKo Apr 2014 #1
The frackers throw a small amount of dollars in return for ruining the land and GOP is OK with that. blm Apr 2014 #2
Public lands hollowdweller Apr 2014 #3
The issue is one of constant contradictions. It's blatant hypocrisy from tea baggers in this case. blm Apr 2014 #4

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
1. Explains why Kay Hagan was one of 11 Dems urging Obama to make Keystone Decision
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 01:01 PM
Apr 2014

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)
2. The frackers throw a small amount of dollars in return for ruining the land and GOP is OK with that.
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 01:06 PM
Apr 2014

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)
3. Public lands
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 01:23 PM
Apr 2014

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)
4. The issue is one of constant contradictions. It's blatant hypocrisy from tea baggers in this case.
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 02:10 PM
Apr 2014

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