If regulations were energy, we would not need any other source.
There are probably worse chemicals used in the manufacture of windmills and solar panels.
I guess I’m an enviro wacko homo communist.
Fracking uses nasty chemicals that have gotten into the local well water on too many occasions. It is a real concern.
And before you flame me I don’t think fracking causes earthquakes or is a technology we learned from crashed UFOs.
There’s a middle ground here. Complete bans are an over reaction and so is “anything goes” approaches. There will always be shoddy implementations of fracking. They need to be driven out of business. Even major firms can be shoddy, such as BP and TEPCO.
Fracking is the lesser of the evils on so many levels, but the industry must make every effort to regulate itself. Otherwise they risk over reaction like widescale bans.
Witness, Santa Barbara. New oil production is still banned there as an over reation to a spill 40 years ago.
the enviros have only one goal, and that is to continually decrease and hinder production.
they don’t give a crap whether fracking is actually bad or not. they just want it to seem bad enough to shut down production....
they are going to lose this time, however.
FRACKING IS BRILLIANT....
Add 'Biomass' (or in laymen's terms, burning wood, dung or garbage) and hydroelectric which the Greenies also try to kill you and you have 95% of all renewable energy.
The only energy they support is the types that won't work.
They don't give a crap about the environment. Their goal is to destroy the economy so they can replace it with their Marxist utopia. Once that happens, you'll never hear a word about the environment again because the government will be the only polluter.