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• Comment Link Saturday, 20 October 2012 10:28 posted by Hassen

  BHP said the technology was “safe when coplued with sound operating practices”, adding that it “has joined more than 20 other companies to voluntarily disclose the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process”.Jill Wiener, an anti-fracking activist in Livingston Manor, New York, echoed sentiments evident in US anti-fracking blogs and citizen groups. “It’s nice to say they will voluntarily disclose the chemical additives, but at the end of the day we are still dealing with toxic substances that foul our water and taint our aquifers.”

• Comment Link Friday, 12 October 2012 21:09 posted by Pojok

  BHP said the technology was “safe when cpouled with sound operating practices”, adding that it “has joined more than 20 other companies to voluntarily disclose the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process”.Jill Wiener, an anti-fracking activist in Livingston Manor, New York, echoed sentiments evident in US anti-fracking blogs and citizen groups. “It’s nice to say they will voluntarily disclose the chemical additives, but at the end of the day we are still dealing with toxic substances that foul our water and taint our aquifers.”

• Comment Link Friday, 12 October 2012 21:07 posted by Titto

  Fracking's safety and etfecfiveness is all about the quality of the operator and the exercise of power by the state. Interview the Shell Oil experts who are confident fracking can be safe and effective. Interview the Sierra Club of Texas to find out how the state's environmental "protection" agency is unlikely to impose on all operators the higher standards of fracking that dependable companies like Shell Oil espouses. Interview the Governor of Texas and ask him why he protects Wyoming and Montana coal interests to supply dirty Texas coal fired electric plants instead of creating clean air and low cost energy and most importantly lasting jobs, jobs, jobs, for Texas, by turning to a domestic natural gas energy policy. These are the issues you should be addressing. Domestic natural gas production can be safe. Until the cost and efficiency and technological gap of solar, wind, and clean low cost alternaives are achieved, it is our nation's only realistic hope in the near future for jobs, clean air, energy independence, and the national security all of that brings to us.

• Comment Link Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:16 posted by Alyssa

  Fracking's safety and efinvtfceeess is all about the quality of the operator and the exercise of power by the state. Interview the Shell Oil experts who are confident fracking can be safe and effective. Interview the Sierra Club of Texas to find out how the state's environmental "protection" agency is unlikely to impose on all operators the higher standards of fracking that dependable companies like Shell Oil espouses. Interview the Governor of Texas and ask him why he protects Wyoming and Montana coal interests to supply dirty Texas coal fired electric plants instead of creating clean air and low cost energy and most importantly lasting jobs, jobs, jobs, for Texas, by turning to a domestic natural gas energy policy. These are the issues you should be addressing. Domestic natural gas production can be safe. Until the cost and efficiency and technological gap of solar, wind, and clean low cost alternaives are achieved, it is our nation's only realistic hope in the near future for jobs, clean air, energy independence, and the national security all of that brings to us.

• Comment Link Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:02 posted by Sheila Cohen

  The request here is to vote for or against the motion which, apparently is confusing some people.
  
  If you are against fracking, you vote FOR the motion.
  
  Deborah Goldberg was the most knowledgeable of the group and presented brilliant arguments. Learn something - listen to her arguments carefully!

• Comment Link Sunday, 12 August 2012 18:15 posted by Pat Mulligan

  I think both sides did a poor job of arguing the case with the exception of Ms Tierney. I think it would be good for them to give their sources -- their could not have been "hundreds" of drill rigs around Erie, CO. Their are only 1900+ total in the U.S., and last week their was 61 in Colorado. Also, no way does it take 4,000 trucks to haul in equipment and supplies for one well. Just a couple of the things I remember that were blown out of proportion.

• Comment Link Friday, 10 August 2012 10:02 posted by Rationalist

  For all of you AGAINST FRACKING, there is an even more ominous threat.
  
  Every day, Billions (not Millions!) of gallons of scarce water are used, thousands of pounds of unidentified petrochemicals are dispersed on unprotected soil, untold native species of plants, animals, and insects are purposely displaced (or even killed!), a huge fraction of the Earth has been clear-cut to support this horrible scourge! The US Government is even proud to subsidize this affront to nature. We should write regulations to make them STOP until the government spends more time/money studying what they are doing!
  
  Who are these evil people? They are called "Farmers."

• Comment Link Thursday, 09 August 2012 18:09 posted by Rationalist

  It seems there is a great fear of chemicals among those posting on this subject. I wonder how many of those same people have the same fear of what is in their laundry room (acids, bases, surfactants) or in their cars (glycols, carcinigens in rubber and lubricants) since it is mostly the same stuff as is used in fracking. And what starts in your laundry room eventually ends up in the drain, and what's in a car accident ends up in a storm sewer. To be consistent, shouldn't we outlaw washing and driving?

• Comment Link Monday, 30 July 2012 15:22 posted by kevin

  drill baby drill

• Comment Link Monday, 30 July 2012 03:51 posted by Richard Blackmore

  One thing which really irritates me in a debate is the false argument of straw manning. Taking an opponents position, exagerating it, and then arguing against the exageration rather than the actual position. Mr. Tierney did this very quickly, right after she essentially argued that slowing down the boom can't be done anyway ( a clearly false argument). To me her argument failed miserably.