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Related: About this forumFracking is fine...apparently.
This guy concerns me and I think should be of concern to every Democrat who cares about the environment.
Hillary Clinton Picks TPP and Fracking Advocate To Set Up Her Whitehouse
As a senator, Salazar was widely considered a reliable friend to the oil, gas, ranching and mining industries. As interior secretary, he opened the Arctic Ocean for oil drilling, and oversaw the botched response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Since returning to the private sector, he has been an ardent supporter of the TPP, while pushing back against curbs on fracking.
The TPP would enhance the ability of corporations to sue to overturn environmental regulations, but Salazar helped a pro-TPP front group, the “Progressive Coalition for American Jobs,” argue the opposite.
In a November 2015 USA Today op-ed that Salazar co-wrote with Bruce Babbitt, the two men argued that the TPP would be the “the greenest trade deal ever” by promoting sustainable energy. Both Salazar and Babbitt cited their former positions as interior secretaries to boost their credibility.
Shortly after leaving his post at the Obama administration, Salazar appeared at an oil and gas industry conference to argue in favor of fracking.
“We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone,” Salazar told the attendees, who included the vice president of BP America, another keynote speaker at the conference. “We need to make sure that story is told.”
“We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone,” Salazar told the attendees, who included the vice president of BP America, another keynote speaker at the conference. “We need to make sure that story is told.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/16/hillary-clinton-picks-tpp-and-fracking-advocate-to-set-up-her-white-house/
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Fracking is fine...apparently. (Original Post)
SHRED
Aug 2016
OP
Rehashing your OP from the other day. We get it. Stop bashing Dems on DU.
misterhighwasted
Aug 2016
#1
Should environmentalists worry about Hillary Clinton’s transition team chief?
OKIsItJustMe
Aug 2016
#6
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. Rehashing your OP from the other day. We get it. Stop bashing Dems on DU.
Let it go
Let it go
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. I see
Then constructive criticism, based on facts, isn't allowed?
I've defended our candidate from the rightwing Republican nonsense and pushed her from the Left. I've stated I will vote for her and yet you blanket me with a "bashing" label. Unfair.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)3. Constructive??
That's the problem.
I believe reasonable FACTS were made explaining the limits to Mr Salazar's appointment the last time this was brought up.
And here we are ..again.
Stop bashing Dems on DU.
Salazar doesn't have the final word on setting policy. Hillary chose her Transition team for certain reasons & you think Salazar was chosen just to pass fracking laws? That is the fear factor your OP is driving home isn't it?
Never mind..
Bye.
Stop bashing Dems on DU
SHRED
(28,136 posts)4. The transition team
They wield quite a bit of power in who will be in the cabinet.
Salazar has proven to be in the corporate rightwing of the Democratic Party. That is my concern. To be watchful is important is it not?
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OKIsItJustMe
(19,937 posts)6. Should environmentalists worry about Hillary Clinton’s transition team chief?
http://billmoyers.com/story/should-environmentalists-worry-hillary-clinton-transition-team-chief/
[font face=Serif][font size=5]Should environmentalists worry about Hillary Clinton’s transition team chief?[/font]
[font size=4]Or are they making too much of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's overtures to oil and gas producers?[/font]
By Emily Schwartz Greco | August 26, 2016
[font size=3]On top of winning over a clear majority of women and people of color, Hillary Clinton gets plenty of love from environmentalists, having gleaned endorsements from the NRDC Action Fund, the Sierra Club, and the political arm of the League of Conservation Voters. But many green activists backed Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries and they remain skeptical of the presidential hopeful’s commitment to slashing carbon pollution fast enough to avert climate chaos.
On one hand, climate-minded leaders take pride in having pushed Clinton to take bolder stands on their issues. On the other, her choice of Ken Salazar to lead her transition team gets their banners in a bunch. Salazar, who on Thursday led Clinton’s transition team to the White House for an initial briefing (along with representatives of Donald Trump’s campaign), strongly backed renewable energy while representing Colorado in the Senate and serving as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of the Interior. But he didn’t exactly distinguish himself as Enemy No. 1 of the oil, gas and coal industries.
“For climate activists, the test is keeping fossil fuels in the ground,” said Jason Kowalski, the US policy director of 350 Action, the political arm of the 350.org climate action group. One reason Kowalski thinks Salazar fails that test is that “in an era when climate science was telling us to stop this sort of thing, he pushed to expand fossil fuel extraction,” including a controversial coal leasing program that has since been halted by President Obama and auctions for offshore oil-drilling leases held after BP’s Gulf Coast oil disaster.
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Salazar has also taken many stands that climate activists would appreciate — like ending subsidies for fossil fuels. As a lawmaker and Cabinet member, his support for renewable energy earned plaudits from the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade association and lobbying group known as SEIA.
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[font size=4]Or are they making too much of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's overtures to oil and gas producers?[/font]
By Emily Schwartz Greco | August 26, 2016
[font size=3]On top of winning over a clear majority of women and people of color, Hillary Clinton gets plenty of love from environmentalists, having gleaned endorsements from the NRDC Action Fund, the Sierra Club, and the political arm of the League of Conservation Voters. But many green activists backed Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries and they remain skeptical of the presidential hopeful’s commitment to slashing carbon pollution fast enough to avert climate chaos.
On one hand, climate-minded leaders take pride in having pushed Clinton to take bolder stands on their issues. On the other, her choice of Ken Salazar to lead her transition team gets their banners in a bunch. Salazar, who on Thursday led Clinton’s transition team to the White House for an initial briefing (along with representatives of Donald Trump’s campaign), strongly backed renewable energy while representing Colorado in the Senate and serving as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of the Interior. But he didn’t exactly distinguish himself as Enemy No. 1 of the oil, gas and coal industries.
“For climate activists, the test is keeping fossil fuels in the ground,” said Jason Kowalski, the US policy director of 350 Action, the political arm of the 350.org climate action group. One reason Kowalski thinks Salazar fails that test is that “in an era when climate science was telling us to stop this sort of thing, he pushed to expand fossil fuel extraction,” including a controversial coal leasing program that has since been halted by President Obama and auctions for offshore oil-drilling leases held after BP’s Gulf Coast oil disaster.
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Salazar has also taken many stands that climate activists would appreciate — like ending subsidies for fossil fuels. As a lawmaker and Cabinet member, his support for renewable energy earned plaudits from the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade association and lobbying group known as SEIA.
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