Fracking for Natural Gas; A Discussion with Lester Brown
June 30th, 2010
Fracking for natural gas can cause flames to shoot out of water faucets and pollute groundwater with unknown chemicals – and yet the EPA has little authority to regulate this process used by the natural gas industry in 38 states. In this rebroadcast edition of Earthbeat, Host Daphne Wysham speaks to Abrahm Lustgarten about the 60 stories he’s written about fracking for the non-profit investigative journalism group – ProPublica.
Then, a discussion on how the rest of the world is leaping forward on a clean energy future with Lester Brown. Lester is the president of the Earth Policy Institute and the author of an editorial in the Washington Post and the book, Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
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July 31st, 2010 at 1:48 am
Does anyone know that the Energy Bill Of 2005 gave exemptions from EPA regulations (clean water act, clean air act, superfund act, etc.) to the natural gas and oil companies ?
Does anyone know which US Senators and which US House Representatives voted to pass the Energy Bill Of 2005 and which of them are up for re-election this coming November ?
Does anyone know that Bill H.R. 2766 was started in the US House Of Representatives in June 2009 to repeal all the exemptions to environmental regulations (clean water act, clean air act, superfund act, etc.), but has been stuck in the US House Of Representatives for some unknown reason ?
Does anyone know that a 107 minute documentary called “GASLAND” was created by Josh Fox after he was sent an offer by a natural gas company to do whatever they wanted on his land for $ 4570 per acre ?
Does anyone know that there was a recent protest in Albany, NY by actor Mark Ruffalo and long time musician and environmentalist Pete Seeger with alot of other people that want to put a two year ban on any drilling in the Marsellas Shale formation that extends from Tennessee to northern New York ?
We must tell the rest of the country that some of our representatives in Washington, D.C. traded our clean ground water supply for a larger, but not necessarily cheaper, supply of natural gas and to ask each of them why because those exemptions are not buried deep inside the Energy Bill Of 2005.
EPA regulations were created to protect the public from water, air, and ground polution created by anybody or any form of business in the first place and our Congress and President should have never given exemptions to any entity and especially on to natural gas and oil companies unless it was a matter of survival for the country and not just to increase a supply of fuel that is cleaner burning than crude oil or coal.