Posted on 05/17/2012 9:48:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
(CNN) -- Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.
"This is a big deal," Gov. Peter Shumlin said Wednesday. "This bill will ensure that we do not inject chemicals into groundwater in a desperate pursuit for energy."
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Come on over to New Hampshire. From there you can drill out everything beneath Vermont and not give them “one thin dime”.
Worked in Vermont for eight summers in the 60’s the people there at that time were pretty conservitive. The influx of Gays and metrosexuals screwed the place up!
The people of Vermont are hypocrites of the highest order...
“This bill will ensure that we do not inject chemicals into groundwater in a desperate pursuit for energy.”
I like the use of “desperate,” there. Brings to mind oil executives in fine suits ripping out their fingernails while wildly digging at the ground, frothing at the mouth.
“Groundwater is not affected by fracking.”
Groundwater is affected by everything. It must be, given how often lefties are concerned about it.
Most groundwater is contaminated with Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Every pipeline company that maintains a natural gas pipeline into the godforsaken socialist state ought to turn off the valve. Let the little Marxists freeze.
I've been to that state exactly ONCE. Not going back.
That has to have turned the trick. Man, something looks as if it blew up.
Vermont is totally fracked up.
“of course the Gov. makes his point with a typical liberal lie”
By the way, they didn’t say, notice, that groundwater was affected by fracking. They just said this would “ensure” it wouldn’t. For instance, if someday, somehow fracking were to change into a process, that did poison groundwater, now that can’t happen. I imagine to them who wrote the bill it’s a perfectly reasonable assumtpion that without governments banning things even the most pristine and benign technique would eventually be corrupted by unwatched Big Oil Fat Cats.
Better ban than sorry. Unless you want cheap energy. But then you’re “desperate” for energy and can’t be trusted.
I'd invest in ANY company that advertised doing this.
“With horizontal drilling, an oil company can put a rig just over the state line and still drill Vermont’s resources...without Vermont getting a penny of revenue.”
Call in the Burns Slant Drilling Co. to drink Vermont’s milkshake.
Vermont is too small to pull this stupid move. Haven’t they watched “There Will Be Blood.” New Hampshire will drink their milkshake.
Fine, let them freeze to death in the dark.
>> “This bill will ensure that we do not inject chemicals into groundwater in a desperate pursuit for energy.”
Very cool. Vermonters, freeze in the dark while you attempt to satisfy your thirst by licking ice cubes made of really pure groundwater.
My God this isn’t even a joke. The statement reeks of hatred for energy for human existence.
Seriously! If you inhale that stuff, it’ll kill you!
Besides, it corrodes metal and fish &@%# in it.
These are the same folks hell-bent on closing down the Vermont-Yankee Nuke PLant. Let um the dumb arses!
Funny thing is if the mountains in VT are an extension of the Appalachian ( was well as the Berkshires in Mass ) do they not also have "Gas" like they have in PA?
What formation may they have under their feet (i.e. other than York, Marcellus etc )?
I'm not a geologist, but I had a few such courses in college, and you don't have to have a degree in the subject to see many problems resulting from extensive fracturing of subterranean rock strata to release locked up oil/gas. The threat to aquifers is enormous. If you were depend on groundwater for your water needs, you'd oppose people who risk poisoning your well also!
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