Posted on 09/03/2024 2:42:04 AM PDT by Libloather
Pennsylvania environmentalists are dismissing Kamala Harris' statement defending her pivot on fracking, and say her opposition to a ban on the practice divides voters in the top battleground state.
Fracking is just one of the shifts Harris got asked about in her prime time interview with CNN, after jettisoning several left wing positions she adopted during her presidential campaign in 2019.
'My values have not changed,' Harris told the network. 'We can grow and we can increase a thriving clean energy economy without banning fracking.'
'Her values haven’t changed except her values have changed,' scoffed Karen Feridun, co-founder of the Pennsylvania-based Better Path Coalition
'She was very clear she was a supporter of Green New Deal, she was banning fracking and then all of a sudden she wasn’t. That's not a good position. And I think it's a bad assumption that Pennsylvania is never going to vote for somebody who's anti-fracking and who would plan to ban it,' she told DailyMail.com Friday, while environmentalists were buzzing about the issue in online forums.
'It's something that doesn't line up with having strong values of protecting the planet and so saying that seems disingenuous,' she fumed.
Maya van Rossum of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, where there are regional fracking bans put in place by a regulatory board, said, 'It is incumbent on our on our governmental leaders, whether they're elected or appointed to office, to take a position based on the facts and science and reality and to do what is best for the greater good, presently and generationally.'
'It’s amoral unpriccinipled for anybody in a position of power to be supporting fracking,' she said.
Political experts conducting spot analysis on Harris's interview pointed to the obvious importance of Pennsylvania, where Harris has been in a virtual tie with Donald Trump...
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Fracking has been used since the 1940’s. Now it’s a problem?
It is just another attack on the oil industry.
Fracking puts a lot of people to work in high paying jobs and the dims don’t want people to be independent and not reliant on the govt.
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