flacaltenn
Diamond Member
No. Apparently you don't have it.
But, then there is this:
Ever consider that those symptoms are consistent with folks who live DIRECTLY ON TOP OF nature's own toxic waste dumps? It's WELL documented that folks living on top of nat gas fields had issues with seepage and water WELL BEFORE the guys came to harvest any. In fact, REMOVING that toxic material, might be the best method to giving these folks relief.
As for your 2nd quote.. Demonstrates AGAIN how financially naive leftists are. They haven't a foggy CLUE about how folks invest and what the tools are.. ANYONE who owns a share of INDEX fund, an energy ETF, or has an outside managed retirement fund --- HAS ---
" a financial interest in at least one energy company active in the Eagle Ford"..
If you are investing in ANY WAY -- and YOU DON'T have " a financial interest in at least one energy company active in the Eagle Ford" --- then you're doing it all wrong...
Mental Midgets -- the lot of them..
Actually, I have thought about it. Oil field trash when I was a kid for several years. It's something that I bounce back and forth with others in my family. This is a process with a history so, what changed? What is being done differently? What corners are being cut? Why spend so much time suppressing information? It seems to me that if it's not a concern that people would go out of their way to legitimize that angle by making sure that chemicals are disclosed, there were no gag orders, or even the ya, we know we can put some safeguards in regarding benzene etc.
I understand how investment works. Thanks. In fact, I can tell when someone is actively buying stock and when someone's portfolio is pretty much left to a financial adviser. But that isn't what the problem is:
Saturated with oil money, Texas legislature saved industry from pollution rule | Center for Public IntegrityState Rep. Tom Craddick, who championed the House version of SB1134, owns stock in nine oil companies, five of which are active in the Eagle Ford. At the end of 2013, the stock was worth as much as $1.5 million. That year Craddick, and the partnerships and corporations he controls, received royalties of as much as $885,000 for mineral rights. For decades he had a lucrative partnership with Mustang Mud, an oilfield supply company.
Corporations, along with unions, are banned from giving directly to state candidates in Texas, but since 2000, industry employees and related political action committees have contributed more than $800,000 to Craddicks campaigns, according to an analysis of data from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
The industry has also invested more than $600,000 to help Craddicks daughter, Christi, win a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission in 2012. The Railroad Commission, which issues drilling permits, has been criticized for years for allowing its three commissioners to accept campaign contributions from the industry they regulate. But with support from the House Energy Resources Committee, of which Tom Craddick is a member, it has beaten back attempts at reform.
Gov. Rick Perry, who signed SB1134 soon after it landed on his desk, has collected more than $11.5 million in campaign contributions from those in the industry since the 2000 election cycle. Attorney General Greg Abbott, the favorite to win the Republican nomination for governor, has raked in more than $4 million. Since he has been in office, Abbott has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 18 times for interfering in Texas affairs.
I find it very unfortunate that you think that everyone that speaks on this is a mental midget. I find it very frustrating that the assumption is this is an all or nothing game.
We actually agree on the disclosure part of this.. I'd be much happier if companies were to declare the nature of their fracking fluids. But the issue there is NOT political influence, it's proprietary company info. A problem that creeps up when the govt regulators are both trying to regulate AND protect sensitive intellectual property. So -- a lot of the whiners like ProPublica are just GUESSING at what is in the fracking fluids. And they guess badly.
Besides, so WHAT if a small amount of Benzene WAS in the fluids? It's like pissing into a sewer grate. Because you are putting a minute amount of hydrocarbon into a natural deposit of IMMENSE size containing the exact same "contaminants" ?? Look at the list of "guesses" of what's in the fluids.. MOST of the alleged compounds are naturally occurring in the hole you are drilling..
You don't think the same "investments" made by politicians play a role in Big Wind or Big Solar? This is caused by the POWER we've ceded to politicians to select winners and losers in virtually every market. ALL regulation should be across the board for EVERY corporation in that marketplace. And no legislation should pass that prefers ONE over the OTHER.