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It is Time to Ban Fracking | Bernie Sanders (Original Post) Donkees Apr 2016 OP
A huge, secular AMEN! nt Chef Eric Apr 2016 #1
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #2
^^^^^^ blm Apr 2016 #5
Before TTIP bans banning fracking, which will be soon, in Brussels. Baobab Apr 2016 #12
Couldn't agree more SocialLibFiscalCon Apr 2016 #3
K & Recommended Duppers Apr 2016 #4
It boggles my mind Rebkeh Apr 2016 #6
Exactly, Rebkeh... MrMickeysMom Apr 2016 #13
He actually said she propagated fracking around the globe and mentioned methane being much thereismore Apr 2016 #7
Only One Democratic Candidate Has Stood Strong on this Issue... kadaholo Apr 2016 #8
Fracking is so 1900's nationalize the fed Apr 2016 #9
It boggles my mind why Governor Jerry Brown allowed it in Calif. Duckfan Apr 2016 #10
Brown forgot who he was... MrMickeysMom Apr 2016 #14
Bold Leadership and a Political Revolution; .....or a vagina? zebonaut Apr 2016 #11

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
12. Before TTIP bans banning fracking, which will be soon, in Brussels.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 08:07 AM
Apr 2016

Please people be aware of that. Putting permafracking in TTIP will make housing much more expensive because the price of natural gas wil rise and demand a lot of new building, especially in cities. It could remake the cities in a new market rate mold. Lots of people will be displaced if that happens, because their low rents are tied to a specific apartment.

 
3. Couldn't agree more
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:09 PM
Apr 2016

Ask the folks in Oklahoma about the huge increase in earthquakes. Never heard of one there before fracking, now they have like 50 a month! Not to mention the defilement of the water supplies!

Rebkeh

(2,450 posts)
6. It boggles my mind
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:39 PM
Apr 2016

that our government doesn't take climate change seriously enough. This is not something we can delay anymore, thank God for Bernie. This is the President we all need!

I cannot think of a single issue with more intersections and overlaps between various movements. Talk about a Venn diagram!

Bernie 2016

No more fracking!

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
13. Exactly, Rebkeh...
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 08:47 AM
Apr 2016

Remembering the moment out of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, there's a scene where he stands with an imaginary balance in his hands and remarks something like...

Let's see... short term profits... or an earth that's inhabitable? Um....


It is simple, when you open your eyes to what is changing more rapidly on planet earth by each day!

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
7. He actually said she propagated fracking around the globe and mentioned methane being much
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:47 PM
Apr 2016

more dangerous than CO2. Lots of methane escapes during fracking. Bravo!

kadaholo

(304 posts)
8. Only One Democratic Candidate Has Stood Strong on this Issue...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:56 PM
Apr 2016
"As secretary of state in 2010, Clinton argued in favor of gas as 'the cleanest fossil fuel available for power generation today,' and said that 'if developed, shale gas could make an important contribution to our region's energy supply, just as it does now for the United States.' Her office, meanwhile, promoted fracking in developing nations.

After leaving the Obama administration in 2014, Clinton still emphasized the benefits of fracking, implying that strict limits on fracking should be the exception to the rule. In 2016, Clinton has flipped her emphasis, as Sanders has gained an edge from his anti-fracking stance: Now, she suggests it will be a rare, unlikely case when fracking should be allowed."

From: "Hillary Clinton's Big Shift on Fracking" by Rebecca Leber Mon Mar. 7, 2016

Bernie proves time and again that he has the vision, the intelligence, the wisdom, the consistency and the integrity to stand up for what is right with his uniform calls for a TOTAL BAN on fracking.

Fracking fails the "Seventh Generation" test and Bernie has known that all along.

LIVE GREEN...VOTE BLUE FOR BERNIE!

GO BERNIE!!! (for the sake of our environment and our future generations!)

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
9. Fracking is so 1900's
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:51 PM
Apr 2016

Why drill holes in the earth and then inject chemicals to extract gas?

The fuel of the future is now



Duckfan

(1,268 posts)
10. It boggles my mind why Governor Jerry Brown allowed it in Calif.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 12:34 AM
Apr 2016

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out when you're in a drought situation, fracking is the last thing you want to do to your fragile water supply.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
14. Brown forgot who he was...
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 09:10 AM
Apr 2016

He needs to see himself in the mirror, circa 1992, when he was on to something, like connecting to everyone's future, not just his own.

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