SIXTY FRACKING LAME MINUTES

I was annoyed by last night's show

So was James Kunstler

"So, last night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America's ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the "go-to" patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public."

"McClendon told the credulous Leslie Stahl and the huge viewing audience that America 'has two Saudi Arabia's of gas.' Now, you know immediately that at least half the viewers misconstrued this statement to mean that we have two Saudi Arabia's of gasoline. Translation: don't worry none about driving anywhere you like, or having to get some tiny little pansy-ass hybrid whatchamacallit car to do it in, and especially don't pay no attention to them "green" sumbitches on the sidelines trying to sell you some kind of peak oil story.... "

"At the present time, with America anxious about any kind of future energy, shale gas sounds like a dream-come-true. Mostly what the public saw on 60 Minutes last night was a sell-job for Chesapeake Energy to boost its stock price."

"Little is known about the migration of fracking fluids underground"

"What this disgusting episode really shows is how eager the USA is to mount a campaign to sustain the unsustainable at all costs, including massive collective self-deception. The lying starts at the very top, not just in Aubrey McClendon's office at Chespeake, but in every executive suite throughout the land - including the Oval Office - where any lie is automatically swallowed and then upchucked for public consumption in the interest of keeping a nation based on addictive rackets stumbling on without having to change our behavior."

Entire Essay - HERE

A Nation...
Based on Addictive Rackets

 

FRICK-FRACKING AWAY, OR FRACKICIDE

 "A terminal cancer is eating away at the very bowels of the American earth! In various geographical locations of the United States where massive shale deposits offer opportunities for extraction of natural gas through a process known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the deadly drilling of this fossil fuel continues to metastasize. While there is growing concern about and protest against fracking, the inexorable exploitation by and economic power of the oil and gas companies involved augurs a future of devastating pollution of diminishing

land and water resources."

 "If the economic shortsightedness and

hype of so-called "clean fuel" continue to boost and expand fracking, we will face an unprecedented assault on the environment that may very well doom future generations

of residents of the United States to

a slow, but sure, toxic death."

By Francis Shor

Swans.com

Entire Essay - HERE

FRACKICIDE

by

FRACKING

SHALE GAS DRILLING: PROS & CONS

"Natural gas has been the ugly step child

of our national energy debate"

"...and now the step child is being

touted as the hope of the future"

"The answer to our energy problems" 

"And yet, if the BP spill taught us anything
it's that exploring for energy has safety risks" 

"But that can get lost in all the excitement"

Full Segment


PROS & CONS INDEED

"Tim and Christine Ruggiero explain how their dream home turned into a nightmare when drillers arrived and began digging up their land. It turns out the Ruggieros owned the land, but not the rights to the minerals beneath it"

Extra: Gas Drilling Horror Story


Aubrey, 
you really make my skin crawl-

FRACK FLUIDS 
ARE NOT SAFE DOWN THERE
ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE

Michael Brune,
please butt out-

NATURAL GAS IS
NOT CLEANER THAN COAL

GAS DRILLING TONIGHT ON 60 MINUTES

Gas Drilling & "Shaleionaires"

7 pm tonight on CBS

Preview

Aubrey sees us as

nothing more than playthings.

Makes my skin crawl.

Same for "gift from the good lord" Goober.

So what do you think we'll get?

"...the new hope for America's energy future"

?????

Sounds like industry PR to me.

60 Minutes has been

dumbed way down over the years.

Hoping for the best

Expecting the worst

SIERRA CLUB MICHAEL BRUNE BULLSHIT

I'll leave it to others to be diplomatic and polite.

Can't help it - I'm fracked.

THIS "CLEAN FUEL" CRAP

HAS GOT TO STOP

Michael Brune is Executive Director of the Sierra Club

From his article "The Word Obama Forgot to Say"

in yesterday's Huffington Post:

"Concerns about natural-gas extraction have been on the rise not just in Dimock, but in places across the country, from West Virginia to Texas to Wyoming. And yet even given these important issues, natural gas still has a relatively lighter footprint than coal or oil. Gas is not a clean fuel, but it can be cleaner."

"It's important to acknowledge that just because natural gas is cleaner than other fossil fuels -- especially coal -- does not mean we should give the industry a free pass."

Article - HERE

ASTONISHING

Fracking propaganda from 

a national environmental leader.

Is he that dense?

Does he belong to the Marcellus Shale Coalition?

Has he joined Tom Corbett's transition team?

Does he cuddle up to the Corporatocracy?

Michael:  

get on the right side of this

- or resign.

NATURAL GAS IS

NOT CLEANER THAN COAL

I Repeat

NATURAL GAS IS

NOT CLEANER THAN COAL

LOOK HERE >>>>

Robert Howarth is the David R. Atkinson Professor

of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University

"Natural gas as a clean fuel is a myth."

Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Report - HERE

  "A complete consideration of all emissions from using natural gas seems likely to make natural gas far less attractive than oil and not significantly better than coal in terms of the consequences for global warming."

From Preliminary Assessment of the Greenhouse  Gas Emissions from Natural Gas obtained by Hydraulic Fracturing"

Howarth Cornell Report - HERE

Note: Final Report due soon - stay tuned

You Want Some More?

Yesterday - From Josh Fox in Australia:

"Fracking Hell: Busting the Natural Gas Myth"

‘‘ ‘Clean-burning natural gas’ is not a fact, it’s a slogan,’’ he says. Methane, a key component of the gas produced, is up to 72 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, and it is emitted all along the production path as well as when it is burnt.

‘‘So when you burn the gas, sure, it’s cleaner than burning coal. But when you look at the life-cycle of developing it, you’re on a par with some of our dirtiest fossil fuels.

‘‘They’re trying to say natural gas will save the world, when in fact it’s the opposite: natural gas is trying to destroy renewable energy by being its principal competition. This is fossil fuel, and fossil fuel is of the last century. This century’s job is to make sure that’s not what we’re dependent on going forward.’’

Story - HERE

Additional perspective from Climate SOS:

SIERRA CLUB MUST STAND FIRM AGAINST
CLIMATE SELL-OUT IN KERRY- GRAHAM – LIEBERMAN BILL:
Open Letter to Grassroots Sierra Activists Urges
Resistance to Fatal Compromise on Senate Bill

May 2010 Letter - HERE

Bob Dylan

LET US NOT TALK FALSELY NOW

THE HOUR IS GETTING LATE

No More Time For Crap
A Little Bit Louder Now...

MARK RUFFALO BLASTS CUOMO OVER FRACKING

photo - video below

Our most visible advocate speaks out

from the University at Albany last night:

"You don't put everyone else in jeopardy

just because it's going to bring jobs,

it just doesn't have very much foresight to it,"

said actor and anti-fracking

activist Mark Ruffalo.

This was in response to yesterday's radio interview

with governor-elect Andrew Cuomo.

"If it were safe, if the watersheds were protected,

and if it could create jobs, great," said Cuomo

"He's saying he won't drill in places

where there's watersheds.

But, I hate to tell you, Andrew Cuomo,

the whole state is a watershed,

 Why is one person's watershed

more important than

another person's watershed?

He's got a serious issue."

YNN Video

More from Mark:

"We don't want a bunch of cowboys coming in here drilling holes everywhere they think

an opportunity sees fit."

"Our country right now is being run

by big gas and big oil," Ruffalo insists,

"We see what happens. They're getting

more and more desperate right now to take

more energy out of the ground and they're

taking riskier and riskier practices to do it."

YNN - HERE

WNYT - HERE

"Hey,
you don't bring your daughter
to the red light district because
you're having hard times,"
said Ruffalo

 

THANK YOU MARK

 

TURN IT UP

TURN IT UP

LOUDER

DIMOCK GAS LEAK VIDEO

"One clip of video shows a well head surrounded by a continuous ring of bubbles. Another reveals a rolling boil of methane bubbles. Both versions, according to state officials, indicate problems with drilling procedures."

The videos were recorded by the PA DEP

over a year ago

at Cabot Oil and Gas wellsites in Dimock, PA.

"The DEP maintains the video is evidence

of poor drilling procedures that have led to

the pollution of neighboring water wells."

Cabot has responded with their usual lame denials.

"I don't believe you have evidence there of a rationale of gas going into neighboring (water) wells," said George Stark.

Nicely put George

Video & Story HERE

This video should have been released a long time ago.

It is probably typical of wellsites throughout the state.

None of us could ever get close enough to see.

How many other DEP videos are there?

The video does not allow fullscreen, embedding or download.

I'll watch for it on youtube.