The EPA is not an unbiased source. I don’t give credibility to any of their studies, regardless of who benefits. Their studies find whatever the lobbyists what them to find.
Exactly right. The EPA has become just another highly politicized arm of the Obama administration. Laying off “fracking” is just another volley in their battle against the coal industry. Why? Because the United States is sitting on top of the largest coal reserves in the world. There are currently over 260 billion tons of known economically recoverable reserves within our boarders. At current rates of consumption that is enough to last nearly 300 years. That is the equivalent of nearly a trillion barrels of oil. Even with the massive amount of regulations... coal is still the most economical means of producing electricity in most parts of this country.
Not only that... when have you ever heard of a coal spill causing massive environmental problems? What happens to sea birds when a coal tanker sinks? What type of cleanup has to be done when a coal train derails? The primary club that environmentalists use on coal is the imaginary global warming issue. It has now been 18 years 6 months and counting since any global warming has occurred. Not to mention the quietest ten years on record for hurricane and major storm activity. Now “global warming” is being blamed for droughts in some areas and flooding in others but it is all hyped up nonsense with no substance.
Anyone who hates America wants to devalue our most abundant energy supply and destabilize our electric power grid which despite being largely constructed many decades ago is still the envy of the world. One of the best ways to bring this country down is to destroy our coal industry which is why Obama has been on the attack even before he became president. He promised to bankrupt anyone who tried to open a new coal fired power plant. (unless it was in China of course) The Chinese have completed an average of one new 1000MW coal fired power plant a week in the last fifteen years all while selling us expensive US government subsidized solar cells and windmill blades.
Nah, nice conspiracy theory (frack vs. coal), but it’s pretty clear Bork Obunga and his socioeconomic fascists hate BOTH oil and coal.
Both create a carbon footprint and both are an integral part of our formerly-capitalist economy. Obunga hates that.
They probably seriously couldn’t find evidence of fracking damage to water supplies and were peer-reviewed in their analysis so they couldn’t bend the truth any longer.