Fracking and the Pickens Plan

What is the Pickens Plan doing about fracking? Can we afford Pickens? How many people will lose potable water because of natural gas greed? How will the Gulf of Mexico fair?

These and other questions aren't being addressed or are they being suppressed. Before we can adopt Pickens' Plan we must first address what damage Pickens and other oil and gas companies have caused. After that assessment, we must make sure that none of these prior egregious errors are ever caused again. We must hold these companies responsible otherwise why use Pickens' Plan. How many more dolphins will die?. How many human beings will pay for oil and gas company greed and contamination the way Gulf of Mexico?

If others on this network have feelings of a similar vain, I would like to hear from you.

Joe

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Permalink Reply by SJC on February 28, 2011 at 12:53pm

Fracking can be done safely, but as long as the 2005 law exempts them from EPA regulation it is Frack Baby Frack.

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Permalink Reply by Gerald Richerson on March 25, 2011 at 8:19am

There are some great people out there doing what they can to expose the downside of fracking but as long as the oil and gas industry continue to label this effort as tree hugging hippies no meaningful dialog will follow. Boone himself will not even consider that use of this technique might have some negative impact on the environment and people. So, until Boone and his industry counterparts embrace the possibility and join in the research rather than simply stating that it has been in use for over 50 years with no negative consequence I'm going to be hard pressed to support this effort whole heartedly. I'll do my study you do yours and then we'll point fingers at one another and say I'm right you're wrong. This accomplishes nothing! I do believe that the US needs to do more about shoring up our internal energy infrastructure and supply chain but not at the expense of the environment and human health. I think we've seen enough from polluting industries that some common sense approach to validating this technology's impacts would go a long way to easing the rhetoric surrounding its use. Come on Boone do the right thing and lets have an open and frank dialog here and work with those who suggest that this technique is doing more harm than good, not just discounting them because you've been using these methods forever and nothing bad has happened so far.

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Permalink Reply by SJC on March 25, 2011 at 9:18am

We can make methane from biomass, but as long as natural gas is cheap it will be used.