What a bunch of crackpots.
See the related thread at link #3 above....for more about what civilization is doing to OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Only the exposure of Anthropogenic Global Warming as a hoax/corrupted research/conspiracy to manipulate carbon credits markets (take your pick or 'all of the above') shot the cloven hooves out from under the EPA plan to restrict or regulate gas (and oil) drilling on land out of existence.
The studies on greenhouse gasses produced while drilling and producing wells in the Bakken were done a couple of years ago, putting a halt to drilling on Federal Leases in North Dakota and Montana at the time.
I have been working wells on private leases, and there are plenty of those to drill, yet, but if the AGW thing hadn't been exposed, chances are we'd all be sitting at the house.
That said, consider the devastation, not just on the oil industry, but on all aspects of a booming local economy, of declaring a 'moratorium' on fracking, for instance, and the picture just isn't pretty, unless you are in a position to wait things out, pick up bargain commercial property and hang tough until things pick up again--could be thirty years.
Now it's Katie-bar-the-door as the Environmental Protection Racket is after any and all means, fair or foul, of implementing the agenda of keeping America weak, regardless of the presence of research, or of any valid scientific pretext.
Obama and the rest of his fellow totalitarian travellers know that sooner or later a mother will sell her soul for a crust of bread to feed her starving child, and that is the level to which they want to push, if necessary, to reap the harvest for their Master.
It has nothing to do with science, little to do with energy (except as a tool of policy), but everything to do with control.