Janet Damon, Colorado Progressive Coalition organizer and project
coordinator
These silly moms never care about where the energy they use to drive the kids to soccer practice and cook the food on the stove comes from?
Obama’s Colorado campaign director is an anti fracking activist.
Eh, tell ‘em to go frack ‘emselves!;)
Fracking contaminates drinking water. One claim is that fracking creates cracks in rock formations that allow chemicals to leach into sources of fresh water. The problem with this argument is that the average shale formation is thousands of feet underground, while the average drinking well or aquifer is a few hundred feet deep. Separating the two is solid rock. This geological reality explains why EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, a determined enemy of fossil fuels, recently told Congress that there have been no “proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.”
Fracking fluids likewise fail to match the “toxic” and “cancerous” opprobrium alleged by anti-drilling campaigns. More than 99.5 percent of the fluids consist of water and sand. The other 0.5 percent is chemicals to keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth and improve gas production.
Although industrial chemicals once were used, almost all of today’s are vegetable oil and chemicals used in cheese, beer, canned fish, dairy desserts, shampoo and other food and cosmetic products.
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/23/facts-not-fears-should-govern-fracking/?page=all
If obama wins re-election there are new EPA regulations ready to go on fracing.
My job on the Bakken will be lost i believe
So lets hope that wookie jumps headfirst into the fray. Then we can blame her for high gas prices. Sounds good to me.
Guinea pig?!!!
After fracking has been employed in Texas and Oklahoma for around sixty years? Guinea pig?!!!
There is no ignorant woman like an ignorant liberal woman.
Janet Damon is evidently a librarian, working with the Denver Public Library. Nonetheless, she is one dumb bitch!
This is B******t. The gas nis there, and can power us for hundreds of years, The oil is there and can poswer planes, trains and automobiles and MASS FREAKING TRANSIT BUSSES for years....Will windmills power a mile long intermodal freight? Never. Will solar panels power a commuter jet flying from Elmira to Detroit? Not in a zillion years....
So, go pound sand you eco-terrorists.
Everybody agrees that filthy water and polluted air is our main goal.
I want all my grand children to die from filthy water that we made them drink.
Good God, don't these libs think about anything before they say it?
Hmmm...I’m suburban mom and you’re a noob. We moms are generally well regarded on FR. I gave up my good job years ago to be with my little, now big, guy.
I have no problem with fracking. Good manners always elude people of your mindset.
I was on my first Frac Job in 1966. The first recorded frac job was in 1947, oil based, Stanolind Oil, Hugoton gas field in Kansas.
We have been fracing wells for 65 years. This controversy is not about possible contamination of ground water. These frac jobs are far below the fresh water tables, sometimes by many thousands of feet. This controversy is about a group of far left environmental zealots that do not want us to be energy independent and many of these same Zealots want the United States to fail as a great nation.
Apparently, fracking is a very hot issue in a lot of communities. In a small town (Fountain City) in western Wisconsin not far from where I live there has been an attempt to build a fracking plant close to the town. My wife and I just drove up the river and through the town, and we saw hundreds of yard signs against building a fracking plant. I saw only one pro-fracking sign. Of course, more than a few anti-fracking signs also had “Recall Walker” signs in their yards as well.
To He!! with the First Wookie and the enviroliars.