Posted on 09/20/2011 5:28:33 PM PDT by mandaladon
(CNN) -- Charlotte Bevins' long blond hair blows in the wind as she stands amid protesters, her eyes red and puffy from crying.
Just four months ago, Bevins' brother, Charles, lost his life in a drilling accident in central New York. He was 23, a father of two small children.
Gazing at the ground, Bevins tightens her grip on the handles of the baby stroller that cradles her young niece while hundreds of protesters lining the nearby streets wave signs and yell around her.
No fracking way. No fracking way. No fracking way, the crowd chants.
Bevins recently made the trek from West Virginia to Philadelphia, with her mother and her late brother's son and daughter, to join up with other protesters calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." The "Shale Outrage" rally took place outside a gas industry conference at the city's convention center this month. Inside, industry lobbyists and gas company executives were touting the natural gas boom in northeastern Pennsylvania and networking with officials, including Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and former U.S. homeland security secretary.
Outside, the angry mob continues to chant and wave signs before marching to Gov. Tom Corbett's office near City Hall.
Ban fracking now. Ban fracking now. Ban fracking now, the crowd chants.
The rally not only targeted the shale gas conference attendees, but also served to drum up support and awareness for a critical public hearing on the issue on October 21.
It is the last public hearing before the Delaware River Basin Commission will vote on whether or not to open the Delaware River watershed to hydraulic fracturing.
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By 2020, according to the study, drilling could support 256,420 jobs and generate $20 billion. ...............The environmental loons always find something to bitch about.
Blue collar jobs enact a certain penalty on all its people, not just drilling or fracking jobs.
I have worked the fracks and flowtested.
I’ve worked on drilling rigs and pulling units.
I still have all my fingers and toes.
Working the Bakken now
BS
I was going to say, isn’t this why SD has lots of jobs right now?
In Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota, they are looking at fracking. Trouble is it takes more water than is available. In that part of the world, people have been killed for water rights (and fairly recently). Not the best place to do it.
And I am not confident we have a good handle on what it actually does to the ground water yet.
Just four months ago, Bevins’ brother, Charles, lost his life in a drilling accident in central New York. He was 23, a father of two small children.
Not to make light of anyones death on the job but... It happens every day out there in the mean old world of big non caring machines when humans interact with them. Outlaw presses, outlaw lathes, outlaw mills on and on and on
Eliminate all energy.
Eliminate all jobs.
Live in the land of Baraqqi utopia!
Slackers arise!
Frac here, frac now!
They should be off the grid and surviving on only what they can trade among their neighbors. I’m tired of this crap.
And I am not confident we have a good handle on what it actually does to the ground water yet.
Fracking isn’t anything new. It didn’t destroy the aquifers in Texas and Oklahoma and has been used at least since the 80’s.
Ban drilling and mining and logging in the U.S.
Let them do it overseas - places like China, Cuba, Indonesia, etc. The environment, and the workers, get treated sooooooo much better over there.
Red, "fracking" has been a common practice in Texas wells since the early fifties.
That's sixty years. And, yes, we've a pretty good handle on it.
I live in the middle of the Barnett Shale play -- which fracking made possible. The only people who have any concern about it are the recently arrived liberal moonbat envirowhackos (from either coast).
And nobody pays any attention to them.
In sixty years of "fracking", not a single case of groundwater contamination has been traced to the process. Not one.
The argument is over. You can relax.
That would be funny if so many didn’t really think that way
I find that the policies advocated by environmentalists are not worth the cost in terms of our liberty and prosperity.
But then again, I was raised as a conservationist by a father and grandfather who both believed we are stewards of our natural resources, not worshipers of them. They believed that our resources are ours to responsibly develop, and to starve in the cold and dark while sitting on easily extracted resources is irresponsible.
We have reached the point of absurdity with the enviros that we have allowed them to shut down oil drilling in the US while putting ourselves at the mercy of cultures with zero appreciation for developing resources responsibly, and cultures that are happy to take our money, that is up until the moment they help destroy us.
Seems like the enviros really want something other than to protect the earth. Maybe they just have such a bad case of self-loathing that they are willing to see our culture destroyed so they can feel better about our prosperity.
I’m not sure they even think of it. They must think if they don’t drill here - they have “saved the planet”. Idiots.
I worked at a mine in Indonesia for awhile. A worker dies? No big deal - pay the family $10,000 and call it good. Contamination? Who cares - no one around to see it anyway, except for a few natives.
I’m all for developing our natural resources. But I believe we need to be good stewards of it all as well. The U.S. is far and above the most strict on those types of things. (Too strict.)
Environmentalism isn't about the environment. It's about power.
The individual protesters may not know that. But their leaders do.
In that sense, it's just like poverty. The War on Poverty wasn't about poor people. It's about power.
You can use the exact same tautology on every liberal issue in the book.
Yes let’s pot mark the somewhat interesting landmarks vs taping methane hydrides that only have 300 times worth of all carbon based fuel ever discovered .
Clearly going after 14 hrs worth of shale gas is incredibly smart.
Fracking is safe, especially with the strict procedures and standards in place that make it safe. You could not give me even a minute example of why or how what you claim is credible.
But go ahead, give it your best shot, and while you are at it, explain it in engineering detail. I can hardly wait.
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