2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Proposes Fracking Ban and Attacks Hillary Clinton on the Environment
Today in Binghamton NY:
Secretary Clintons role in fracking when she was secretary of state is not a good record, Mr. Sanders said. Secretary Clinton and her State Department worked to export fracking throughout the world.
The senator added that Mrs. Clinton used fracking to reward companies like Chevron, Haliburton, and Exxon Mobil and that he, as president, would push to end fracking everywhere.
Mr. Sanders also said Mrs. Clinton was late to opposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline and that she does not support legislation he introduced calling for a carbon tax to discourage the use of greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels. He also pointed out that unlike Mrs. Clinton, he opposes offshore drilling and would end leases for the extraction of fossil fuel on public lands.
Soon after the senators speech in Binghamton, the Sanders campaign released a new ad featuring the actress Susan Sarandon, one of Mr. Sanderss most visible surrogates.
Do Washington politicians side with polluters over families? Ms. Sarandon says in the 30-second spot. They sure do, because big oil pumps millions into their campaigns. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate for president who opposes fracking everywhere. Why? Because fracking pumps dangerous cancer-causing chemicals into the ground and threatens our drinking water. Bernie. He cant be bought by them, because hes funded by you.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/11/bernie-sanders-proposes-fracking-ban-and-attacks-hillary-clinton-on-the-environment/?_r=0
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Look at his audience. The man has no shame.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)so I believe Bernie is speaking truthfully when he says he'll work for and support a ban.
Unlike Hillary, who is content to protect our water from frackers on an "incremental" basis.
Btw, you might want to consider changing your name to "Hope Buster".
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)area. I hope you get to live that wonderful dream you envision, really I very sincerely do.
Right near the epicenter of several drilling sites, a wonderful place where you can enjoy the specially fortified water and the excitement and thrill of earthquakes, It will make your own home an amusement park ride!
I want you to enjoy that which you support fully and happily.
Meanwhile, in my state, we may still have to deal with your toxic shit released in an atmosphere we all share unfortunately, but we were able to get it banned and thus avoid the water and seismic repercussions of such poor judgement.
You say, "No WE Can't" end frakking
We said, "The Fuck WE Can't" and we did end frakking,
no rainbows or ponies required, so your "argument" and NO WE CAN"T slogan ring as hollow as as the inside of a tennis ball.
Broward
(1,976 posts)And gay marriage would never be legalized. And on and on.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Eat drink and be merry, right? Oops, the 1% left us nothing to eat or drink, oh well!
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)<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.
Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Department's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.
The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globepart of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officialssome with deep ties to industryalso helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.>
amborin
(16,631 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Your water can be poisoned and her water would be clean - pragmatic