Know Thy Enemy: Pro-Publica: "The Next Target: Natural Gas Development"

Just as I have predicted, once the environmental radicals finish off coal mining, which is the backbone of the American economy, providing cheap power and other essential elements for an economic recovery through development of new coal-based technologies and products, they will turn their green gaze to natural gas production and drilling to destory that industry, too.

I recommend reading this article to gain a complete understanding of how the mind of radical environmental are building the foundation to attack the natural gas industry and to try and eliminate or bankrupt another vital part of the energy solution for America's energy security.

Instead of an all-of-the-above solution to our energy problems, radical environmentalists take aim at any energy sector that does not comply with their move to completely destory the American economic power and to relegate the world's best overall standard of living to that of a banana republic third-world country.

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Pro-Publica: Natural Gas Drilling - What We Don’t Know
by Abrahm Lustgarten

It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under enough pressure to peel paint from a car -- are pumped into the ground, pulverizing a layer of rock that holds billions of small bubbles of gas.

The chemicals transform the fluid into a frictionless mass that works its way deep into the earth, prying open tiny cracks that can extend thousands of feet. The particles of sand or silicon wedge inside those cracks, holding the earth open just enough to allow the gas to slip by.

Gas drilling is often portrayed as the ultimate win-win in an era of hard choices: a new, 100-year supply of cleaner-burning fuel, a risk-free solution to the nation’s dependence on foreign energy. In the next 10 years, the United States will use the fracturing technology to drill hundreds of thousands of new wells astride cities, rivers and watersheds. Cash-strapped state governments are pining for the revenue and the much-needed jobs that drilling is expected to bring to poor, rural areas.

Drilling companies assert that the destructive forces unleashed by the fracturing process, including the sometimes toxic chemicals that keep the liquid flowing, remain safely sealed as much as a mile or more beneath the earth, far below drinking water sources and the rest of the natural environment.

For the complete article and Pro-Publica's year-long investigation (to understand the thinking of the radical environmentalists) click here:  Pro Publica.

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This is a sad commentary on the agenda of the radical environmentalists, but will provide insight to the thinking of those who determined to impose their radical agenda on America.