More municipal bans on fracking pose setback to domestic energy boom

Fox News ^ | December 06, 2014 | (With AP)

[Olog-hai]

The surge in domestic-energy production that has created millions of new jobs and abundant natural gas and oil is now facing a potential setback, cities across the country imposing bans on the widely-used deep-drilling process known as fracking.

At least three U.S. cities and two counties in the November elections voted in favor of such a ban. And courts in Pennsylvania and New York have recently ruled in favor of letting cities have some control over the drilling.

There is little surprise that Texas is at the forefront of the fight between energy companies and other fracking supporters and critics who say the drilling process is noisy, pollutes water supplies and triggers earthquakes. …

[Olog-hai]

Little wonder the liberal media won’t use the proper name “hydraulic fracturing” . . . thanks to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, the word “fracking” sounds like a vulgarity.

[smoothsailing]

Well then, the liberal media can just go frack itself! :-)

[caww]

....”cities across the country imposing bans on fracking”...

No that’s not right...’cities’ don’t impose bans Politicians do....and activists/unions/lobbyists who want to control the them for their own agendas.

[Vendome]

It’s more of a Setback to the idiot communities, who suffer themselves, to be “had” by OPEC and the USSR...

[Smokin' Joe]

Go to the website, look at the picture, read the caption:

FILE: April 29, 2013: Pump jacks drill for oil in the Monterey Shale, Calif. (REUTERS)

That tells me all I need to know about the quality of editing, and likely the veracity of the statements in the article.

Any fool who doesn't know a pump from a drilling rig has no business in the discussion.

[Entrepreneur]

The article highlights a growing and frightening problem in America. There is a Luddite element in the country that has found a home and voice in the environmental movement, which has been co-opted by Marxists. It used to be a fringe element, but is now large enough to sway elections. They are wholly emotion driven and unable or unwilling to reason. When presented with hard facts, they dismiss them as opinion and instead, threat opinion as fact.

[Erik Latranyi]

This is why I am happy that Pennsylvania has an impact fee system. About half of the taxes on O&G drilling stay in the local community where the well is located.

Ban hydraulic fracturing, you get less revenue while your neighbors enjoy the fruits of energy independence brought to you by American workers making above-average salaries.

[wildbill]

When you talk about a non-issue, drilling for oil and gas inside city limits has to be near the top.

These type of liberal oriented issues make liberal politicians feel good at having “aaved’ their city—but I don’t know of any sensible drilling companies who want to operate in a city environment. With all the vacant land available that has no near neighbors or city regulations, a driller would have to be a moron to want to drill in a city.

These laws are sorta like a law banning raising elephants at home indoors. See how well it works—no elephants.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And the people who own the rights to the property and mineral rights will NOT get any money off what is underneath there.