Enviro-Dumbasses: starting with "Oh No"! The Top 5 Lies About Fracking

The REAL question is: Who, aside from their own egos, considers these fools as artists?  m/r

NY lobby board asked to investigate Yoko Ono, other Artists Against Fracking

The Top 5 Lies About Fracking - Reason.com
Ronald Bailey | July 5, 2013
Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered.

Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox's earlier anti-fracking docudramaGasland, will run on HBO next Monday. It appears to have rounded up the usual corporate villains and appealing victims of profit-hungry capitalist skullduggery, rather than telling the more substantial story: that fracking combined with horizontal drilling has unleashed a bonanza of cheap natural gas.

Fracking involves injecting pressurized water combined with sand and small amounts of chemicals to crack open shale rocks so that they will release trapped natural gas. Generally, the shale rocks are thousands of feet below the aquifers from which people draw drinking water. No doubt to the dismay of activists, [Even he goes along, but do not trust him!] Barack Obama appears to endorse the process. "Sometimes there are disputes about natural gas," he said at his climate change speech last week at Georgetown, "but let me say this: We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because, in the medium term at least, it not only can provide safe, cheap power, but it can also help reduce our carbon emissions."  ....

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Falsehood 1: You can light your tap water on fire. ...

Falsehood 2: Fracking fluid "could seep into groundwater and poison drinking water." ...

Falsehood 3: Fracking increases air pollution. ...

Falsehood 4: Fracking causes cancer. ...

Falsehood 5: Natural gas is worse than coal. ...

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