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2016-03-20 -Land of the Free

Fracking to Prompt Sharp Rise in Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Says

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Posted by Fred 2016-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 not an epa report

and it didn't say what Al Hahar said,

the report was more indirect - it said that petrochemical plants using natural gas from fracking would emit carbon ---- well duh.

Posted by lord garth 2016-03-20 01:03|| 2016-03-20 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll take the Greenies seriously when they acknowledge the success of GW Bush's global program to reduce methane emissions, which Obama canned. It did more to reduce GHG emissions than all the solar panels on the planet. And vastly cheaper of course.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-20 03:19|| 2016-03-20 03:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I take environmentalists very seriously---more seriously than I take ISIS.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-20 04:30|| 2016-03-20 04:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I also take them seriously, they are a threat to humanity and should be rooted out where found.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-03-20 07:53|| 2016-03-20 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I never take Greenies CLAIMS seriously.

I take them as seriously as I do any other fascist organization like the Democrats.

Posted by AlanC 2016-03-20 09:03|| 2016-03-20 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 but do not take into account the leakage of methane and other greenhouse gases during the process. When these are added in, studies show, shale gas can create even more pollution than coal.

Leakage? Did they drill holes in the supply line so the 'methane and other greenhouse gases' would leak out? Leakage can be managed fairly easily. Yes - I'm serious - these are the same types of people who would 'adjust' temperature data to reflect their preferred conclusion or deliberately place senors and measuring equipment in the center of asphalt parking lots and outside of air-conditioning units in order to 'measure' higher temperatures. Drilling holes is not a stretch and of course if you drill enough holes it 'can create even more pollution than coal.'

I'll take them seriously as a serious threat to the country's economic well being and our freedoms.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-03-20 09:46|| 2016-03-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Methane emissions from the oil and gas industry can be eliminated mechanically.
Global warming can never be eliminated by either mechanical or any other means known to man.

It is not the oil companies that pollute the environment. They only extract and refine the products that the public demands.
It is the PEOPLE who demand, buy, and BURN the fuel that pollutes the environment.

Posted by junkiron 2016-03-20 18:35|| 2016-03-20 18:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Well sure.
Cheaper gas and folks will drive more.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-20 19:28|| 2016-03-20 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 In coming decades "fracking" will be deemed by the UN OWG as a "Crime agz the Planet/Humanity" despite its utility in finding out new reservoirs of oil-gas, espec from depleted or difficult fields.

Which begs the Maha-Rushian Questionne' - WHAT TECH(S) WILL BE DEV AS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE(S) TO "FRACKING" AFTER TEAR 0250???

[CAPSIZED USN BB USS"OKLAHOMA" = "FRACK-QUAKED" US STATE OF OKLAHOMA here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-20 20:40|| 2016-03-20 20:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Perhaps more importantly, who gets to play "TANK GIRL" in future Reboot???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-20 20:41|| 2016-03-20 20:41|| Front Page Top

#11 As Glenn Reynolds often says, I'll believe that global warming is a crisis when people who tell me it's a crisis start acting (and living) like it's a crisis.

Instead of flying around the world in private jets to Bali to attend a conference they could easily do via teleconferencing.
Instead of living in huge houses.
Instead of being driven around in huge limousines.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-03-20 21:04|| 2016-03-20 21:04|| Front Page Top

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