Hydro Fracking for Energy Independence : Environmentalists Say 'No Way'

The environmentalist are on a roll. They believe that since they were successful in killing coal as a energy resource that it will just as easy to kill of natural gas production. The environmentalist fascists believe but demanding strict regulation they can get their collective foot in the door early but that it will then eventually allow them to kill the entire industry later just as they did with coal.

The problem is there aren't as many politicians on the hook now as there were in the old days willing to suspend common sense to gain a little support from the environmental community. Still the fight goes on to stop 'fracking' of natural gas and oil even thought there isn't any scientific facts that support the claim fracking is polluting ground water wells. In this fight facts are irrelevant to the environmentalists.

But then to, the claims by environmentalists that coal was destroying the environment where based on manufactured scientific results from decades ago and yet it worked to kill the entire industry forcing tens of thousands of people into poverty. The fact that more then 40% of all our electrical energy supply is still produced from coal, and will be for the foreseeable future, means nothing to those that seek to gain power through the control of energy resources

Always remember, those seeking to control outcomes do not need proof, they rely just on the 'seriousness of the charge' and then let the media and the politicians do the rest.

If we are serious about our country's future energy resource development, we have to vote out those that are standing in the way of that progress. If you don't know who they are, the easiest way to start is to vote out every last progressive socialist liberal Democrat that is running for election or reelection. You probably won't get them all this way, but it a good place to start.

Hydraulic Fracturing: A Game-Changer for Energy and Economies
Source: Isaac Orr, "Hydraulic Fracturing: A Game-Changer for Energy and Economies," Heartland Institute, November 2013.
December 5, 2013

North America is expected to become energy-independent by 2020 due to smart drilling techniques such as fracking, says Isaac Orr, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute.

Hydraulic fracturing has led to a 34 percent increase in U.S. natural gas production since 2005, making the United States the largest producer of natural gas in the world. Thanks to fracking, the United States is projected to replace Saudi Arabia as the top petroleum producer by 2017.

• Last year marked the largest one-year increase in oil production in U.S. history, with production increasing by 14 percent over the previous year.
• Corresponding with that increase in production, oil imports as a percent of U.S. consumption have fallen from 70 percent in 2009 to 37 percent in February of 2013.
• Consumers have benefited greatly from fracking in the form of lower natural gas prices, with customers saving more than $100 billion in 2011 alone.
• Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created as a result of fracking, and those numbers are expected to continue to increase. Williams County, North Dakota, has seen a 316 percent growth in jobs, from 8,671 in 2000 to 36,107 in the third quarter of 2012.

But despite these benefits, environmentalists insist that fracking endangers the environment and contaminates groundwater, leading many to call for regulation of the process.

• But despite the misleading scene in the movie "Gasland," in which a Colorado resident ignites the water running from his faucet, there has yet to be a confirmed case of hydraulic fracturing contaminating drinking water. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission determined that the methane in the "Gasland" faucet was naturally occurring and came from coal formations, not natural gas.
• A Duke University study analyzed 68 water wells in the Marcellus Shale and found that 85 percent of them contained methane to begin with, regardless of fracking or natural gas operations.
• Without confirmed cases of contamination that can be linked to fracking, there is no science to support calls to end the practice.