How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World
A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.

—By Mariah Blake | September/October 2014

One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying placards that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium...

Following the Crimea crisis, the Obama administration has also been pressing Eastern European countries to fast-track their fracking initiatives ...
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

Obama's Natural Gas Support Signals Bright Fracking Future
http://www.law360.com/articles/504987/obama-s-natural-gas-support-signals-bright-fracking-future

There's no hope if people can't even see what's in front of them

"You can fool some people some times but you couldn't fool all the people all the time" -Bob Marley

It's so bizarre that so many people think that the way to fight fracking, or even just try to regulate it more, is to vote Democratic. Both parties are bought by oil money, or any money in large sums. Its the way our system is set up.

We have to take action as citizens in exponentially larger numbers, then maybe, maybe it will help protect our land, water, & air from this fracking assault?

But what I want to know is why is the Obama Admin pushing fracking worldwide?? I don't get it at all...

Crashing is more like it, and guess who gets stuck with the mess?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/investors-pulling-money-shale-put-040023956.html

Washington Post OP~

"The U.S. oil and gas industry is thriving despite efforts by the Obama administration and liberal environmental groups to undermine fossil fuel development and production, according to a Senate report released Thursday.

...The report, “Setting the Record Straight: Hydraulic Fracturing and America’s Energy Revolution,” is the latest in a series of probes by Senate Republicans aimed at “exposing the collusion between the Administration and well-funded environmental activists who have been targeting groups from farmers to miners to rig workers to manufacturers and fishermen.”

*Then they say~

"Mr. Obama has praised natural gas as part of an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy. In his 2014 State of the Union address, he said, “America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades.”

“One of the reasons why is natural gas, if extracted safely, [is] the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change,” Mr. Obama said in his January address."

I suppose the point of the article, other than continuing the right/left separation & propagating the us vs them mentality, is really that the oil companies are pissed they can't drill more on public land. Maybe they figure if they make it an us vs them thing, more rethugs will get behind that~

"From the time Mr. Obama took office in 2009 until 2013, production of oil dropped 6 percent and natural gas 28 percent on federal lands, even as production on private lands “increased dramatically.” The same figures were first reported in April in a Congressional Research Service study.

Bureau of Land Management estimates show that 90 percent of natural gas and 92 percent of oil on federal lands is “either inaccessible or restricted,” the committee report says."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/23/fracking-industry-booming-despite-liberal-protesta/