What a bunch of clowns.
Cain/Perry Want To Eliminate The EPA
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What's the problem? You must be one of those "I want to breathe clean air, drink clean water" types.
Market based solutions. Look at the Gulf.
What's the problem? You must be one of those "I want to breathe clean air, drink clean water" types.
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Just the Fracking Facts
October 14, 2011
Perry said he would “create another 250,000 jobs by getting the EPA out of
the way” of natural gas drilling. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">But the EPA isn’t currently in the way:</span> The
very study on which Perry relies assumes that all of those jobs will result if
current regulations are not changed.
In a speech at a steel plant in Pittsburgh on Oct. 14, the Texas governor
outlined a sweeping plan to create over a million jobs by increasing American
energy production. The plan involves opening up numerous areas currently
off-limits to oil and gas exploration, and repealing regulations he said are
hampering domestic production of fossil fuels.
The full potential for American energy production can only be realized, he
said, “if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down.”
Calling natural gas a “game-changer” in U.S. energy production, Perry cited
regulation of hydraulic fracturing as an example of government overreach.
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is the process of extracting natural gas
from underground shale formations. Spurred by technological advancements,
the Department of Energy projects shale gas will comprise over 20 percent of
the total U.S. gas supply by 2020.
With the Marcellus Shale deposits in the northeast U.S. poised to be the
largest producing gas field in the U.S., they have come under intense
national focus. Gas companies see huge potential for production and profits
and environmentalists worry about damage to drinking water and other
environmental impacts. Perry, who is running for the GOP presidential
nomination, said development of the Marcellus Shale would be a presidential
priority for him.
Perry, Oct. 14: And right here in Pennsylvania, and across the state line in
West Virginia and Ohio, we will tap the full potential of the Marcellus Shale
and create another 250, 000 jobs by getting the EPA out of the way.
According to a footnote in the full energy plan published on Perry’s campaign
website, the 250,000 jobs projection comes a study released in July, “The
Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Industry: Status, Economic Impacts, and
Future Potential.” The study was funded by the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a
trade association that represents gas companies, and performed by three
energy professors at the University of Wyoming and Penn State University.
According to the report, if natural gas prices don’t fall
significantly, “Marcellus economic activity could support over 250,000 jobs”
by 2020.
But current EPA regulations aren’t holding back that potential, as Perry
contends.
“We made our projections under current policy in effect,” said one of the
study authors, Timothy J. Considine, a former Penn State professor who is
now director of the Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy at the
University of Wyoming.
The EPA is studying the issue of hydraulic fracturing, but no new regulations
have yet been proposed. Due to the expanded use of fracking, Congress in
2010 directed the EPA to study the topic, “to better understand any
potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water and groundwater.”
The EPA’s initial research results aren’t expected until the end of 2012 and
the final report is expected to be released in 2014.
“If there are real stringent regulations imposed, I think the governor has a
point that it could significantly impact the industry,” Considine said. But it’s
premature to speculate on what regulations might be proposed and how they
might affect job projections, he said.
But based on some of the questions being raised during the EPA study
process, there is at least reason for concern by the gas industry, said one of
the study’s co-authors, Robert W. Watson, an emeritus professor at Penn
State and chair of the technical advisory board to oil and gas management of
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Of particular
concern, Watson said, is the possibility of permit requirements regarding
diesel equipment used to extract the natural gas. Those could potentially be
costly and discourage production, he said.
But again, those are potential regulations that have not been proposed. We
take no position on what the EPA should or shouldn’t do, or what the Obama
administration will or won’t do on its own. It’s fair game for Perry to say he’d
prevent future regulations from being imposed, but he misleads when he says
he would clear away impediments that the industry’s own study says don’t
currently exist.
– Robert Farley
http://factcheck.org/2011/10/just-the-fracking-facts/
What Happens When You Eliminate The EPA??
PEOPLE DIE!!
The video below is must watch material.
Herman Cain's biggest sponsors the Koch Brothers are murdering poor Black people with the poisonous waste that is emanating from their industrial plant. For the Koch brothers anyone who might get in their way is just "cash whipped"- bribed to stop any EPA enforcement. If you asked Cain about this video he would say that the people should just move to another part of town.
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PEOPLE DIE!!
The video below is must watch material.
Herman Cain's biggest sponsors the Koch Brothers are murdering poor Black people with the poisonous waste that is emanating from their industrial plant. For the Koch brothers anyone who might get in their way is just "cash whipped"- bribed to stop any EPA enforcement. If you asked Cain about this video he would say that the people should just move to another part of town.
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