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1st Candidate To Pledge To (Make The Attempt) To Ban Fracking

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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"Fracking pollutes water, degrades air quality and worsens climate change. When we are in the White House we are going to ban fracking nationwide and rapidly move to renewable energy. Thank you @ORHouseDems for taking this important step to stop fracking."
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1108032924350377984

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[–] ctwdidswej (212) 5 years ago

Hillary and Obama were strongly in favor of it. This is yet another issue that puts Sanders more in line with Trump, under whom fracking has decreased. Climate change has been the basis for promoting fracking in the first place. Natural gas has less carbon dioxide than oil or coal, so we conveniently look the other way on real pollution, another reason to suspect climate change is a hoax.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

You're wrong on all on all accounts, fracking has increased on public and private land under Trump because the Republican-controlled EPA gutted fracking and land-lease regulations, just today a court temporarily blocked fracking on 300,000 acres of land (illegally) auctioned off for fracking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/20/federal-judge-casts-doubt-trumps-drilling-plans-across-us-because-they-ignore-climate-change/

Gutting of fracking regulations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/12/29/to-round-out-a-year-of-rollbacks-the-trump-administration-just-repealed-key-regulations-on-fracking/

[–] Satan2016 (23547) 5 years ago

Grandpa is going after the stupid vote. People who think Gasland is a documentary.

The shift from coal to gas is the result of fracking. That's the reason the US is the only developed country with a large CO2 reduction. GreenTard Europe is actually increasing!