Why Not Ohio? New Jersey To Ban Fracking!

[Rick Rowlands]

Those are called tradeoffs.  You can't sit in your house sipping your favorite beverage behind a computer with a car in the drive ready to take you wherever you want to go without the resources and energy to make it all possible.  Since you don't want to live in a cave you need the natural gas that comes out of those hydrofracked wells.  There will occasionally be spills, and those spills are cleaned up.  If we were to take the absolute safe course such as what you apparently advocate we all would die come the first big deep freeze of winter.  There would be NO heat.  You don't want us to have affordable natural gas, you don't want us ot have coal, you don't want us to have nuclear, you don't want us to have oil, you don't want us to live!

[irishbobcat]

Bull......................Who told you that, the fracking company???

like a fox guarding a henhouse......

what about all the above ground spills and mishaps.....bad seals, bad casings, etc........

[Rick Rowlands]

Nope.  Decades of hydrofracking have proven that.

[irishbobcat]

Ahhhh....and there are NO cracks in those rocks that lead to ground water?

The only thousand feet of solid rock is between your ears ricky.......

talk about rocks for brains......

[Rick Rowlands]

Chemicals separated from ground water supplies by thousands of feet of rock!

[irishbobcat]

But the bottom line Ricky is that the chemicals put into fracking fluid is full of toxic materials.....
the only misinformation about fracking is being put forth by neo-cons like yourself and the gas fracking companies.....

[Rick Rowlands]

Misinformation and propaganda flows faster and swifter than any fracking fluid ever could!

[irishbobcat]

New Jersey Legislature Bans Fracking
by Gina-Marie Cheeseman
June 30, 2011
10:12 pm
.When it comes to protecting the environment, every victory is one to celebrate. This week environmentalists have something to celebrate. The New Jersey Senate voted 33 to one this week to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas drilling in New Jersey, making it the first legislature in the U.S. to pass such a bill. Better known as fracking, hydraulic fracturing pollutes drinking water and is a significant source of carbon emissions. In March, the Assembly passed the bill 56 to 11.

Sen. Robert Gordon (D-Bergen), one of the bill’s primary sponsors, said fracking, "represents the greatest threat to New Jersey’s water supply than anything else we face today."

"I don’t think we can wait for five years. I think we need to send a clear signal to the rest of the nation that New Jersey values its water resources," Gordon said.

Environmental groups applauded the bill. "The New Jersey Legislature is taking the pro-active step of preventing contamination of our drinking water and environment, the only sure way to protect our residents from fracking pollution. This is a great day for the state’s present and future generations," said Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network.

"New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s signature is all that is necessary now for this critical and timely statewide ban to go into effect," said Jim Walsh, Eastern Region Director of Food & Water Watch. "If he approves it, New Jersey will be the first state to stand up against the devastating environmental and public health impacts of fracking, which have wreaked havoc on other states across the U.S."

"This bill is a great victory for clean water in New Jersey and we believe it will be a national model," said Jeff Tittel Director NJ Sierra Club. "We hope this bill sends a message to the governor to oppose fracking in the Delaware Basin and protect New Jersey waters."

Walsh told De Smog Blog that the oil and gas industry has tremendous influence in Congress. "The reality is this industry has used influence in Washington to exempt themselves from important regulations that are meant to protect public health, our drinking water and the environment," said Walsh. "The industry consistently fights legislation that would bring them into compliance with these important federal laws."



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