A decade ago...environmentalists were so happy. They’d circled the wagons around drilling for oil off the coast of any state, then limited any oil production out of Alaska...they had done the impossible.
Then comes along fracking....of old wells that had already been drilled and accepted in all of the states. Then they discovered all of the shale oil in previously unknown areas like Alabama or Mississippi.
The environmentalists? They now count on Saudi oil money to prep-up and support their funding operation. If it wasn’t for Saudi money....most would be desperate at this point. The odd thing? We are supporting the Saudis by buying their oil, then they dump the cash back onto environmentalists...to wage wage in courts and public opinion. It gets to a point where a regular guy can laugh at the ‘game’ being played out.
Robert Howarth
The David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology
Education:
B.A. 1974, Amherst College
Ph.D. 1979, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Anthony Ingraffea
Education:
BS(Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering),University of Notre Dame,1969
MS(Civil Engineering),Polytechnic University,1971
Ph D(Civil Engineering),University of Colorado,1977
Reading their online Cornell bios its tough to determine their bonifides to comment on findings. Prof Igraffes has been identified as antifracking before expressing concern with ground water pollutin
Oh Wow. thanks to the EPA issuing a regulation less methane is escaping. Nothing to do with the companies doing the drilling !
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