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Related: About this forumMedia Outlets Are Lying Their Asses Off About Fracking
A few weeks ago, the EPA released a study that showed that fracking is causing contamination in our groundwater. But if you read any of the corporate medias headlines about the story, you probably noticed that they said something completely different.
Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this with Josh Fox, director of the documentary film Gasland.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)They_Live
(3,233 posts)markpkessinger
(8,396 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)During the commercial break, and off the record, he doesn't want fracking in his own back yard - then, lights, camera, action! And he says it's completely safe! Going along with corporate greed and corruption to profit off the public at their own expense creates crazy and impossible double standards that are flagrant violations of the Golden Rule - like this joker on Fox News demonstrated. Not in my backyard, but it's OK to scam everyone else, and ruin their lives and property values!
They say that David Rockefeller only let natural, holistic homeopathic doctors treat him, but he ruthlessly promoted technology intensive modern medicine, with its toxic, side effect laden pharmaceutical drugs, and its butchering surgery for the general public. Do unto others as you would never have done unto yourself! This is the very antithesis of any moral or ethical behavior.
The Obama administration is terrible at playing both sides of the fence on environmental issues. On one side, the eloquent sound bites about switching to sustainable green energy, and even substantial promotion and investment. Then on the other side, he's been heavier on the "drill baby drill" approach than any other president we've had - including former oil tycoon wannabe George W. Bush. The right hand cancels out all the benefits of what the left hand is doing. EPA reports come out with headlines that please the fracking industry, while buried in the details somewhere is the truth. An "all of the above" energy policy is simply an evasive, "kick the can down the road" approach that merely sounds progressive, bold and proactive, but is simply an excuse for indecisiveness.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Just how long will we live without potable water? This is insane! Thanks for Josh Fox and posting this.
Number9Dream
(1,561 posts)"The Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which leads a coalition of groups opposing the shale gas tax, has begun running an ad against Governor Wolfs proposal in the Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Wilkes Barre/Scranton media markets. The TV spot, launched Monday, is part of the Chambers Stop New Energy Taxes campaign, an effort to beat back Wolfs plan to tax Marcellus Shale production at five percent, with an additional 4.7 cents per thousand cubic feet." (The ad is now playing in the Lehigh Valley too).
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2015/05/26/industry-launches-new-tv-ad-opposing-shale-tax/