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How is fracking legal?

Beantown

Beantown

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Let's look at all the problems:

Earthquakes: A 5.4 just hit Oklahoma, earthquakes are up over 5000% in the area.

Release of Methane: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/17/us-likely-culprit-of-global-spike-in-methane-emissions-over-last-decade

Ground water contamination:(Fracking is exempt from the Clean Air & Water Act): https://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fracking-water-contamination/

Gas Pipelines: 2.5 million miles of pipeline in the US. A good portion of them are leaking, causing even more damange in our backyards. Away from the drill sites.

Now you have to burn it: Once you finally extract it with chemicals and transport it you now have to burn it. Keep piling on the air pollution.

Subsidies: Since 2009 (Thanks Obama!) subsidies for gas and oil are up 35% to 20 billion/year. Fracking has increased in America by 72%.

The other issues:

-Poisioning livestock

-Hurting small town's: An energy boom jacks up home prices but when all the gas is gone everyone leaves

-Fracking is believed to be behind Vernal's (Utah) high infancy death rate
 
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fgcamel said:
What are peoples thoughts here on Nuclear power?
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Better than fossil fuels, maybe we can do without them if we really decided to stop reliance on fossil fuels this instant & embrace renewables (particularly wind)
 
Fukushima.

Better put that nuke power on the ground of the old craton (continental core).





And... use a ****load less energy anyway.
 
The vibe I'm getting (other than reaction to the circus that usually accompanies the OP's posts) is that so long as it's NIMBY, fracking's okay.
 
Because it creates temporary jobs that makes politicians look good in the short-run for reelections.
 
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