And of course the Gov. makes his point with a typical liberal lie. Groundwater is not affected by fracking.
Politicians only recognize science when it suits them.
Like injecting Ritalin into schoolkids.
Vermont isn’t a very big state. 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.
Assuming Vermont has anything worth fracking to begin with.
“Groundwater is not affected by fracking.”
Groundwater is affected by everything. It must be, given how often lefties are concerned about it.
“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.
That's a big BRAVO SIERRA!!
When the the rock strata are fractured, there is no way to know with certainty that the aquifer layers will not be violated. Our knowledge and mapping of the subsurface structures is imperfect; with a lot of guesswork involved. Once petroleum seeps into an aquifer, it's gone; forever.
It's just as wrong to fall for industry's lies as it is to parrot the eviro-weenies’ lies!