Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:22:19 -0500
From: chathammatters
Subject: In response to Darryl Wally
We may, or may not, eventually have Hydraulic Fracturing in the State of North Carolina. But if we do, I certainly hope we ALL will advocate for effective regulation to safeguard both our water supply and our property rights, it’s in no one’s best interest to harm either.
Isn’t it better to make informed decisions, rather than ones based on propaganda, and fear?
Darryl Wally says:
“Well regulated by whom? That is a joke considering how rightwing politicians and local pundits are trying to eliminate government regulation. If you count on the fracking industry to regulate itself, the fox is in the hen house, and that is not only myopic, it is dangerous”
But here in the real world (as opposed to Wally world):
– Each State regulates Hydraulic Fracturing and some don’t even permit it (the industry does not regulate itself… anywhere in the United States).
– Republican, Independent, and Democrat law makers in the States which permit Hydraulic Fracturing all have signed and support regulation of this industry, nowhere in the United States does the industry regulate itself.
You seem out there like the Movie Gasland which is in competition with Michael Moore for the “Largest Deviation from Reality in a Propaganda Movie” Award.
Just one example of Gasland’s gaseous emissions:
The most dramatic part of the movie: tap water so laden with gas that people can set it on fire… It turns out that has nothing to do with Hydraulic Fracturing. The scene was shot in Colorado, where the filmmaker is in the kitchen of a man who lights his faucet. But Colorado investigators went to that man’s house, checked out his well and found that Hydraulic Fracturing had nothing to do with his water catching fire. His well-digger had drilled into a naturally occurring methane pocket…. gosh, fancy that..