[SoFloFreeper]

The Florida media is beginning to percolate with anti-business rhetoric....the left's side is applauded, while the jobs and economic advances brought about by oil exploration is being given short shrift....or ignored completely.

[SoFloFreeper]

Florida ping!

[Yo-Yo]

“Fracking,” a dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique,

No reporter bias there.

[cripplecreek]

People who went rabid over Michele Bachmann saying that we could drill for oil in the everglades can keep their mouths shut.

[Smokin' Joe]

The media has its head up it's sphincter. The statement “Fracking,” a dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique,... is fundamentally incorrect.

Fracking is NOT a drilling technique. It is a well completion method which enhances oil recovery.

When the media are so incredibly ignorant of even such fundamentals, you are guaranteed even more ignorance in the rest of the article.

[Vaquero]

Wow they start with a filthy lie right off the bat. Stopped reading after that.

[Adder]

a dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique,

Really? How so?

Can they prove this bald assertion or is merely saying it settled science.

Before 10 words are written, you can see these aholes are slanted so far left they crap on their left foot.

But beyond a bitter snark, how in the world do you go about confronting this and stopping it? They know they are wrong and they simply do not care. Meanwhile the headline one paragraph low info voter forms their opine and votes
stupidly again.

[Arm_Bears]

I remember how Jeb Bush, the Hope of the Republican Party for 2016, put the kibosh on off-shore drilling back in the early 2000’s.

Didn’t want to spoil the ocean views of his rich donors.

[Joe Boucher]

I am of the impression the river of grass has been nearly destroyed by the rebuilding of aligator alley?
raised freeway working like a dyke preventing water flow to Florida Bay.

[thackney]

dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique

Three lies in a single six word phrase.

Who can spot all three?

[DeaconRed]

If BIG SUGAR don’t like it, it ain’t gona happen. PERIOD.

[Varda]

I live in an area with hundreds of fracking wells. I’d say the technique uses almost no water. However the anti-fracking people kept saying the water would get polluted and wells would run dry. I really see no opposition to fracking anymore in my area.

[McGruff]

I think the blue line at the top is the ground water level.

[Joe Brower]

Even as these boilerplate propaganda pieces go, this one is amazingly sub-par. Did this so called 'reporter' even graduate from grade school? I suppose it doesn't matter, as long as they are willing to squawk the party line.

Florida Freeper

[Rockingham]

Collier County is wealthy, Republican, and conservative, with the Golden Gate area being relatively working class and more affordable in its housing costs. Local sentiment will tend to strongly favor fracking as a potential source of revenue and employment.

[ken5050]

Check this out:

At first I thought it was an editorial. Then I looked, it's signed by "EnvironmentFlorida."

At the bottom of the article, it says yet if you click on the link..you get a PAGE NOT FOUND.

We need to do a little research..What's "EnvironmentFlorida" and what is the Bradenton Times...

[VeniVidiVici]

DANGEROUS! DESTRUCTIVE!

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

I stopped right here: “Fracking,” a dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique

And in the fwiw department, there are about 60 operational oil wells in the Everglades right now.

5.56mm

[Mastador1]

“Fracking,” a dangerous and destructive gas drilling technique, has used 250 billion gallons of water and 2 billion gallons of chemicals since 2005,

I'm not sure what their point is here, when they say used they seem to be trying to imply that the water has now disappeared and no longer exists.

[ThomasMore]

“the left’s side is applauded”

Yep....many people in Florida are retired New England transplants. That means many Floridians are now left leaning democrats (to include the hopeless minorities that follow the dems and lefties no matter what the cause).

[GailA]

Sister in law lives about a hr from that over priced amusement park Bush Gardens, in a retirement community, her house has a sink hole under it. Ins has already paid the house off. They have know way of knowing how deep it is. But you can see the crack in the foundation in her kitchen. And some outside. No oil business there.