Does anybody in this administration or in congress care about the future of the planet and the future of children?
You know there is probably a reason that the word fracking is so close to the word fucking. Do you think that they (big oil companies, the one that brought us the gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez disaster, etc.) started out by saying, "Fuck the earth, what the hell do we care." and that didn't sound very nice, so they changed it. "Frack the earth." And they think we are so stupid, that we wouldn't make the connection.
ARGHHHH!!!!
From CREDO:
President Obama keeps saying we need to confront climate change.
So why is he going to appoint a major proponent of fracking to lead the Department of Energy?
According to Reuters, President Obama has chosen for the job Dr. Ernest Moniz, the director of MIT's Big Oil-sponsored Energy Institute and a big believer in expanding toxic, climate-heating gas fracking.1
At a time when the last thing we should be doing is undermining our progress against climate change, Moniz is the wrong choice to head one of the most important agencies in the fight for a sustainable energy future.
Moniz's Energy Institute at MIT is sponsored by the likes of BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco. So it is no surprise that the gas industry and pro-fracking groups welcomed the rumor of Moniz's appointment to head the DOE.2
Moniz is a strong backer of the deeply flawed notion that we should expand our fracking infrastructure and development to serve as a "bridge" to low-carbon sources of energy.3
But fracking isn't a bridge to a better future; it's an expressway to climate change and toxic pollution. Expanding fracking will worsen its toxic air pollution and increase its huge volumes of toxic wastewater, will increase incidents of groundwater contamination, and will unleash an absolutely catastrophic amount of greenhouse gas4 — not just from burning gas, but from the tremendous leakage from fracking wells of methane, a greenhouse gas that has 20 times the heat-trapping power of C02 over 100 years, making fracked gas as bad for the climate as burning coal.
What's more, heavy reliance on burning gas slows the implementation of the sustainable carbon-free sources of energy that will put a dent in our climate emissions.
Climate change won't be solved by tradeoffs, compromises, or moderate-sounding catchphrases like "all of the above." President Obama cannot make a serious attempt at confronting climate change as long as he is pushing policies to "encourage" fracking and appointing administration officials who will undermine the progress he could be making.
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Signed the petition..........
ReplyDeleteIt seems that quite a lot of President Obamas
appointments are questionable.
I signed it, too. Why is it that people always want to do things half-assed instead of REALLY doing it right the first time? It starts young. My students are always looking for the easy way around things. Sigh...
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