Posted on 05/17/2012 5:01:58 AM PDT by thackney
Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water deep into the ground.
The Democrat, surrounded at a Statehouse ceremony by environmentalists and Twinfield Union School students who pushed for the ban, said the law may help Vermont set an example for other states. The ban may be largely symbolic, though, because there is believed to be little to no natural gas or oil beneath the surface in Vermont.
The gas drilling technique, called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves the high-pressure injection of water and chemicals into the ground to split rock apart and release natural gas or oil.
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No losses as they have no oil or gas fields.
As a poster above said, it is like Florida banning downhill snow skiing.
Awwww....never mind. If you can kill babies in the womb, what’s the big deal with sticking a tree with a hollow rod and watching it bleed out.
Neat comparison, kind of like using children and mindless environmentalists as your state government policy committee.
Fine. Let the bass turds freeze in the dark.
It’s all the refugees from the Peepul’s Republik of Taxachussetts who’ve screwed up Vermont. They flee there because of the taxes and then vote to re-create the very conditions they fled.
In the 90’s a major supermarket chain wanted to put a distribution warehouse in White River Junction. Vermont said no, it would put too much pressure on their roads. So...it was built in New Hampshire, right across the border and put pressure on Vermont roads. NH gets the revenue, Vermont gets nada.
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