Different Look at the Fracking Debate

[BillWachtel]

www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-cuomos-east-berlin-1424998553

[bobtulowiecki]

Gov. Cuomo has czar like control over this state like we have never seen. Whether it is messing with 2nd Amendment rights or attempting to destroy the public education system, we have never seen a governor who is so motivated to skirt around the ideals and principles of democracy. In addition to this, he is never available for comment unless he pre approves the questions that are to be asked should he even "grant" the opportunity for an interview. We all need to stop sitting on the sidelines and get involved in our government so these type of elected officials do not become the norm.

[BillWachtel]

Well said. We have someone in the White House who operates that way as well.

[jeffraz]

Great comment on Darth Cuomo. His dad must be rolling over in his grave. It is time to get active. Contact the politicians that are associated with your region. Cuomo is backed by hedge funders, Obama's stock has gone down, and Congress' agenda will further erode the middle class. Some say democracy, some say socialism, I say oligarchy. It seems to me that America is for sale. The question is will American citizens continue to let it happen. Thank God for fly-fishing.

[byronfishpaw]

I can't read that "news" cuz ain't logging in to give ole Rupert Murdoch my info, ya know, but...Right ON!

I mean only 300 water wells directly contaminated by hydrofracking in PA is certainly a small price to pay. And I guess they only need a minimum of 26 million gallons of fresh water to frack one well. Heck look at all this snow - lots of water for them Trouts! And we cun just get more from the hatchery. And then there's this leftover injected soup that, well if it don't "spill" (he he) into a creek in WV, we can depose of it in a NY waster water plant cuz um its really not hazardous or anything. It makes great road deicer too with the radionuclides and all.

And the 2nd amendment really demands hydrofracking. Along with charter schools and dismantling labor law, too.

overturn citizens united? Hmmm?

[larryhalyk]

As a student of American politics you guys never cease to amaze me.

Not that things are rosy north of the border. Our Czar Steven has this country on a goose step march away from socialism and toward a capitalist utopia of resource extraction through the dismantling of environmental protection laws and muzzling of government scientists who dare to speak truth to power. The road to environmental destruction is paved by a power that knows no political stripes. Just follow the money.

LCH

[Nick Pionessa]

i'll ask anyone who is pro fracking one question- when has mining not moved into an area, taken what it came for and left a tax payer funded cleanup or ghost town in it's wake?

give me one example in the history of mankind where the outcome of mining was any different.

fracking is mining. mining only has one outcome, ever.

i'll wait for that example...

[juliuspmccann]

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/03/meet-the-merchants-of-doubt-the-pr-firms-giving-you-cancer-causing-acid-rain-and-killing-the-planet.html

Sorry industry but your history has stained my belief in your credibility. As an example, the utility I worked for was regulated by the state and ran a reliable energy source for the people in it's franchise areas. Big bushiness and Wall street wanted a piece of the pie and clamored for deregulation and the break up of these facilities which they obtained without public input. The power plants were sold off to foreign investors and now sit mostly decommissioned (there's a fight over who should take them down), the transmission lines built in the 80's or earlier are in total disrepair and have no financial investment in years, distribution lines reliability are a joke and the 'iceman cometh'. Then these managers of America's well being sold these same utilities off to English and Spanish owned companies who have nothing invested except $$'s. Long outages will be the norm as the work force has been reduced to minimum numbers relying on outside contractors to help when needed. Save your horses hit for your family and friends! Think I'll light up a cigarette and watch the outdated RR cars hauling crude roll through the city and outlying communities knowing full well that big business has my back.

[BillWachtel]

Nick, Your right never. However I sure like $2.00 a gallon gas and lessoning our dependence on oil from the camel jockey's in the middle east.
I don't want to hear about alternative energy sources because they don't work on a large scale unless they are subsidized by the nut cases in Washington . Not affordable, never will be affordable. One last thing.........no such thing as peak oil.
They have been saying we are at peak oil since the 70's.
I go both ways on this. Love my clear water but like my oil. I guess hard to have it both ways.

[juliuspmccann]

Bill, saying never is a long time, the same thing was said about the automobile when it was dirt roads filled with ruts. It wasn't that long ago the Americxn automobile industry insisted on making those gas eating clunkers when Japan were blowing them out of the market with efficient, reliable cars. I'm writing this on a cell phone/ computer that is too small for my hand. Nut jobs in Washington as you call them (a little aggressive here) subsidize everything: oil, cotton, coal, corn, soybeans, sugar beets, beef, chickens and even schools. It's the incentive of profit that inspires invention. With the changes I've seen in the last 67 years it gives me hope for a cleaner future that I probably won't live long enough to see. Big oil has made a lot of people rich on the backs of American labor and I hope when they burn in hell the ovens are gas or oil fired. Point is, the future is yet to be seen and the inginuity and potential of today's younger generation is endless, let's envourage them as opposed to telling th they can't do something. Just saying..,