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Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley => Valley Politics => Topic started by: Towntalk on January 10, 2012, 08:47:43 AM

Title: Fracking and Human Rights
Post by: Towntalk on January 10, 2012, 08:47:43 AM
Speaker: Process will cause 'crisis'


http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/10/by-karl-henkel/?fracking

  An Ithaca College professor doesn't want to see a halt to horizontal fracturing.

She wants to see it banned.

   Sandra Steingraber, an ecologist and author, speaking Monday in Virginia at a shale-drilling health forum along with dozens of health- care professionals, environmental advocates and attorneys, said that fracking will not just cause an envi-ronmental crisis, but also a "human-rights crisis."
 
 
Title: Re: Fracking and Human Rights
Post by: ytowner on January 10, 2012, 09:48:32 PM
These individuals are downright scary. Radical environmentalists are absolutely insane with their scare tactics.
Title: Re: Fracking and Human Rights
Post by: irishbobcat on January 10, 2012, 10:16:17 PM
The same can be said about the radical right. These individuals are downright scary. Some of their scare tacics
are insane as well. Join the club.
Title: Re: Fracking and Human Rights
Post by: Towntalk on January 11, 2012, 01:49:38 AM
Given the history of human rights, I'm deeply offended that this so-called professor would  insert it in her complaint about fracking.

The history of human rights is filled to overflowing with blood, pain, hunger, torture, and unimagined hurt, so extreme that we here in the United States can not point to fracking and compare it to the brutalizing of women and children, or the murder of people because of their religious belief.

There is absolutely no excuse, none whatever for a college professor to dare, ever to imply that fracking is comparable to a human rights violation, and to be perfectly honest, this absolutely disqualifies her opinions on anything.
Title: Re: Fracking and Human Rights
Post by: Rick Rowlands on January 12, 2012, 07:45:34 AM
Thanks Towntalk.