Natural Gas Forum for Landowners

Ok... So bus loads of anti-drilling, anti-carbon footprint, anti-capitalist idealists will be converging on the DRBC November 21, Meeting. What will the circus center on? Kill the drill. Thwart the goals of the greedy family farmers who might actually be able to pay their taxes for a change. Stop the unscrupulous corporations from laying waste to our pristine land, in their quest to squeeze profits out of the land with no thought for the environment or the world.

Frankly, for me personally, it would simply be a tempest in a teapot if the obstruction of the fear mongers did not affect people who for once in their lives, might not have to spend every waking minute trying to hold on to the family farm.

What is the alternative solution that is being provided by those who profess to be saving the environment from the greed of landowners and corporations alike? Solar? Not likely. Not only will any viable solar project be blocked by more pseudo-enviros, the technology is so expensive that it cannot even produce enough energy to return an investment, as has been attested by the "investments"our government has made for us in companies like Solyndra.

How about wind power? Hardly going to get that one off the ground either since we have watched the videos of the eagles getting swatted out of the air by spinning windmill blades.

Bio Fuels, like ethanol? Get real. It takes more fossil fuel energy to create the ethanol, than the energy returned from it. Moreover, that route puts the world's food resources in direct competition with energy production. Hardly a thoughtful strategy to pursue, unless one would prefer starving children over cleaner vehicle emissions.

What is the real motivation for all the hubbub over drilling and fracing? Empirical evidence just does not support the hysterical claims. Recent flooding released tens of thousands of gallons of noxious chemicals and pollutants into the streams and rivers from damaged storage tanks, vehicles, sewers, septics, and who knows what else.

Almost none that could be remotely associated with natural gas drilling. Where is the outcry to ban filling stations, or septic tanks? Or for that matter, NYC sewers which pour bio hazards and dangerous pollutants into the ocean where the fish we eat are harvested? These are REAL and CURRENT environmental issues that ARE producing quantitatively greater human health and environmental damage than all of the fracing combined since the fracing technology began decades ago!

The hypocrisy of this crowd is blatant. If not hypocrisy, perhaps blindness. Their position vociferously supports the untenable philosophy (not science) that by reducing the available quantities of energy resources that the result will be better, healthier lives for everyone. Country folk might get along ok, but these city slicker enviros are going to have an abrupt wake up when the ability of the energy infrastructure that they worked so hard to dismantle is unable to provide the ever increasing demands our society places on it.

The obstruction of literally every energy resource project in the United States on "environmental damage" grounds, combined with the total absence of a viable national energy strategy, has, and will foment huge legal battles and delays. Who pays for these unnecessary and detrimental no value added costs? You do at the gas pump, or your electric or fuel bill.