Andrejs,
Gas drilling is exempt from most local, state, and national laws
regarding pollution, including the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Safe
Drinking Water Acts, Superfund and Federal Right to Know laws. (I got
this off the first page of shaleshock.com.) Given that reality, what
"vigilance and regulation" can we bring to bear?
Also wanted to say I agree with everything Tony wrote about evil and
about resisting evil.
Sharon Ahlers
Andrejs Ozolins wrote:
A part of Andy's question remains: Which creates more environmental
destruction, fuel obtained by current means in various faraway places
or fuel obtained in our back yard by the proposed means. Granted it
all goes through the same convoluted chain of processing and
distribution; still, the extraction processes at origin might be very
different. It seems possible that the vigilance and regulation applied
in Central New York would keep the destructiveness of the extraction
process significantly less harmful to the earth (as a whole) than the
process used in the Middle East or elsewhere. Any facts pertaining to
this?
Andrejs
Hilary Lambert wrote:
Andy,
To answer your specific question:
Gas that is being extracted here or will be extracted here via
hydrofracking
is not being 'used locally.' It goes into small feeder pipes that go to
larger and then larger ones, and becomes part of the global supply,
sold and
shipped to whoever buys it wherever. It is not a 'local' resource like
home-grown vegetables.
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