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War On Shale: EPA Targets Fracking Boom With New Regs
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 15. 2015 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 01/15/2015 10:09:56 AM PST by raptor22

Energy Policy: In spite of dramatically lower methane emissions from fracking, according to the EPA's own data, the agency wants to impose draconian regulations on the oil and gas industry similar to those on coal.

The new rules that the White House announced on Wednesday aim to cut oil emissions of methane, a target of environmental groups, by 45% below 2012 levels, despite the fact that the emissions already show a sharp decline even as shale oil and gas production has skyrocketed.

This war-on-shale action mirrors the administration's war on coal, with EPA rules impossible to meet economically and sometimes requiring technology that doesn't even exist.

Never mind that there's no evidence of the climate change that environmentalists fear. And the EPA doesn't seem to care that the U.S. leads in reducing the fake nightmare of greenhouse gases.

It is an alleged threat of methane to the Earth's climate that has green groups pushing the EPA to limit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technology that has spawned a job-creating oil and natural-gas boom.

It has also been used as a weapon against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship oil from Canada's oil sands and North Dakota's Bakken shale formation to our Gulf Coast refineries.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: bakken; energy; environment; epa; epaoutofcontrol; fracking; govtabuse; ibd; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; kxl; marcellus; methane; oil; regulation; shale; waroncoal
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1 posted on 01/15/2015 10:09:56 AM PST by raptor22
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

FRACKING PING


2 posted on 01/15/2015 10:10:22 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

Woah!...........Didn’t see that one coming!.....................


3 posted on 01/15/2015 10:13:20 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: raptor22

Long past time to shut down the EPA.


4 posted on 01/15/2015 10:14:21 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Red Badger

Payoff time for Obozo’s muzzie pals in the middle east


5 posted on 01/15/2015 10:16:15 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: raptor22
[This war-on-shale action mirrors the administration's war on coal. . .]

And it is launched from the White House in coordination with Saudi Arabia's price war aimed at killing the U.S. fracking boom.

6 posted on 01/15/2015 10:17:23 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: raptor22

Effin libs just can’t stand to see us driving around in our cars, anywhere and anytime we want. It just offends them.


7 posted on 01/15/2015 10:17:23 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: FatherofFive
Long past time to shut down the EPA.

Someone tell me again why we even have a congress

8 posted on 01/15/2015 10:18:04 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: thackney

Is this old news, or could it stopping fracking in its tracks?


9 posted on 01/15/2015 10:18:41 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

It’s time for a Convention of States to end this run away Federal Government!


10 posted on 01/15/2015 10:20:19 AM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Zhang Fei

No to both.


11 posted on 01/15/2015 10:20:33 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: raptor22
This is just Obama doing his Saudi muslim pals a favor while going after the one sector of the economy that was performing well. Two more items to check off in his War on America.
12 posted on 01/15/2015 10:25:46 AM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: raptor22

Before the end of his term the Sultan is determined to end oil production in the USA and he will get loud protests from the Republicans who will then allow anything he does. By the end of the term fuel prices will have ended the middle class as a phenomenon in America and the next president, if a Republican, will vow to twiddle and tweak the system for the advantage of The Middle Class but will only drive us all further into poverty and dependence on the government for survival. There is no recourse short of the unspeakable.


13 posted on 01/15/2015 10:26:54 AM PST by arthurus
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Mobility, social and geographical is a symbol of lack of control and is a terrible irritant to the Liberals/Communists/Socialists/NAZIs/Statists- they are all the same thing.


14 posted on 01/15/2015 10:28:48 AM PST by arthurus
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To: A. Morgan
I am all for a Convention and I fear it would bring on an overt takeover in Washington. A government that has abjured the Constitution and is physically run by members of the Moslem Brotherhood will not permit a Convention to upset their applecart. If they already work openly outside the Constitution why do people think they would permit a Convention, at least one they do not control?

I am for that Convention even at the price of a takeover because if things can be made to happen quickly then perhaps armed resistance will happen effectively. If we let this drag on and on without resolution then we will be slowly overwhelmed to the point that armed or any resistance will only bring massacre.

15 posted on 01/15/2015 10:32:49 AM PST by arthurus
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To: raptor22

If we pro-rate out what America will look like in 10 or so years at the rate of change that has happened over the last 7, it will be a very sterile, Orwellian state. Scary.


16 posted on 01/15/2015 10:33:14 AM PST by llevrok (I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Don’t worry. As soon as Boehner is done opening the floodgates of immigration, he’ll get right on this.


17 posted on 01/15/2015 10:36:30 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: raptor22
Y'wann'a make money ?

OK

Give it to me

18 posted on 01/15/2015 10:37:03 AM PST by knarf
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To: Major Matt Mason

Just another way for our prez to bow down to Saudi leaders.


19 posted on 01/15/2015 10:43:08 AM PST by ully2
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To: raptor22

The EPA and Saudi Arabia working together to kill Fracking ?


20 posted on 01/15/2015 10:51:30 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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