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CNN Tunes in: The domestic drilling backlash

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The domestic drilling backlash
From New York to Texas, energy companies have come under fire as natural gas drilling gets close to big cities.

Ahm… Does this sound like Environmental Justice to you? It sure sounds like it to me.

And energy companies, accustomed to dealing with rural populations familiar with drilling and eager for jobs and lease royalties, are increasingly finding themselves at odds with a more educated and wealthy populace wary of energy development.

I’m glad to see CNN picking up the story but I’m not happy that they repeated the mind virus industry has injected into the American brain.

In the age of global warming, natural gas as an energy source is gaining favor. Burned to generate electricity, it emits about half as much pollution as coal.

Show me the study.

When considered cradle to grave, and counting all the “incidents” where methane shoots into the atmosphere for days and days on end, the fugitive emissions, the massive amounts of solid and liquid waste, I’m betting that n. gas and coal would be in a tight race for which one is dirtier.

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

Comments

  2. Cheap Tricks and Costly Truths says

    Hey, didn't that report about DISH state that the greenhouse gas emissions were equal to two coal fired power plants? Did CNN do any research?

  3. TXsharon says

    Did it say that? My brain is overloaded and stuff is leaking out. Did I miss that important factoid?

  4. Cheap Tricks and Costly Truths says

    "In addition, predicted 2009 emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane were approximately 33,000 tons per day of CO2 equivalent. This is roughly equivalent to the expected greenhouse gas impact from two 750 MW coal-fired power plants. The three anthropogenic greenhouse gases of greatest concern, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, are emitted from oil and gas sources in the Barnett Shale area."

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