Posted on 04/20/2015 3:43:54 PM PDT by CedarDave
A key figure behind New Yorks statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing says that losing out on oil and gas jobs is no big deal because the industry only creates work for women as prostitutes and hotel maids.
In an April 6 lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, biologist Sandra Steingraber of New Yorkers Against Fracking described the fight over oil and natural gas development as a feminist issue.
Fracking as an industry serves men. Ninety-five percent of the people employed in the gas fields are men. When we talk about jobs, were talking about jobs for men, and we need to say that, said Ms. Steingraber in a video posted on YouTube by the industry-backed group Energy in Depth.
The jobs for women are hotel maid and prostitute, she says. So when fracking comes into a community, what we see is that women take a big hit, especially single women who have children who depend on rental housing.
Supporters of the industry swung back by citing a 2014 report from the American Petroleum Institute, which found that women filled 226,000 oil, gas and petrochemical industry jobs, or 19 percent.
The report predicts job opportunities will grow for female and male petroleum engineers, managers and others by 70,000 from 2010 to 20130.
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Ms. Steingrabers comments come amid a push by environmental groups to cast hydraulic fracturing as part of the war on women, which industry critics dismiss as the latest anti-fracking tactic. Foes have also blamed fracking for an increase in bar fights and drug abuse.
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Don't you dare demean the role they fracking had for me, bitch.
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It plays well with the uninformed.
Yes, here on the Bakken the largest percentage of the workers are men but there are many. .standup women here too .
I’ve seen them on the. Fracs. They are flowtesters. And pumpers.
I was pleasantly surprised to.see some hauling .water.many haul Scoria
But the press will drop everything anyway to report this made up garbage anyway.
Presumably, then, this complaint does not exist in conventional plays where hydraulic fracturing is not as commonly used. Because, as the noted industry expert, Sandra Steingraber, will tell us, it’s only the guys on the frac crews who need hotel rooms and who patronize prostitutes. ;-)
I’ve never been to a fracking boomtown, but I would guess that where there is “manly” work, there are injuries, and thus there are jobs for healthcare workers, who are often women. Also, where there is money, there are jobs for bankers and real estate people, who are often women. And where people spend their paychecks, there are women who own and operate retail and food establishments.
If the author wants there to be a boomtown with a lot of highpaying women’s jobs, why doesn’t she go ahead and try to make one?
How many female engineers, technicians, drillers or field workers applied for the jobs?
< crickets chirping >
Holes get drilled. Women get paid...
So, because the majority of jobs in this field tend to be held by men, that somehow hurts women.
She would rather we let them sit in lower paying jobs, or remain unemployed than see them working productively.
Perhaps the silliest argument I’ve heard yet, but I bet her coffee club friends all nodded and thought it was brilliant when she first tried out the line...
Every large business needs an equally large infrastructure employing many types of workers of whom a large number do not do the hard labor part of it. That, of course, would include many women. The leftist idiot, like all leftists, is just talking out of his or her anal orifice.
In other words, a demonstrated liar.
What about wives of Oil Workers? Mothers of their children? teachers? Nurses in the expanded hospitals? Lots of Jobs besides roustabouts.
She’s jealous because no one will pay her for it.
If NY towns secede, can NY businesses succeed?
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So in other words, the fracking boom is enabling women to some of the things they were made to do best: be partners to men and clean houses. Only instead of doing them in a stable and supportive environment they’re trying to be independent, getting a pittance for their effort, and would be far better off doing the same things if they were married! Hilarious!
Ain’t it funny how God’s design always manages to shine through whatever monkeyshines liberals try to pull?
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