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[–]TheMagnificentTrumpNimble Navigator 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Be careful. You are exaggerating the dangers of fracking. Most of what you are claiming is not anything like established scientific fact. For example, the earthquake issue is very minor. You have to remember that normal earthquakes emerge from very, very deeply within the earth--much deeper than we can drill. I agree that we need to regulate and oversee fracking to minimize damage to the environment, but we should definitely frack. Here's a U.K. study generally concluding that fracking is safe if it is done properly. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332837/PHE-CRCE-009_3-7-14.pdf
Why should we frack? Because it will reduce or eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East. It creates jobs and adds value to the economy. The world still runs on fossil fuel. Fracking and similar processes allow us to extract at least double the world's traditional known oil reserves. It's a big deal.
[–]howthedaysgobyNimble Navigator 1 point2 points3 points  (3 children)
This all reeks of concern trolling, but I guess I will bite.
Trump is in no way anti-environment. He wants to break down barriers to economic development and energy independence.
While I agree fracking needs to be studied more, and I don't like the practice personally; it HAS to be a part of our energy strategy for now. I think the chemical mixtures that are used in fracking should be made public, and that the companies SHOULD be responsible for ground-water management in any area that they operate in. I am not an environmental specialist, so no idea how that can be done, but reasonable burden can be placed on the energy companies while allowing them to operate.
As for the EPA non-sense, there is is an awful lot of over-regulation strangling small businesses. It is hard to justify starting a small business when you have to risk every last dollar of wealth your family has built over a generation or two in order to meet super strict environmental regulations. There is DEFINITELY a place for regulations, and we don't want to go back to the time where rivers would randomly catch on fire; but if you regulate too strictly, you force businesses to expand in other places where the may be little to no environmental protections, actually causing more damage to the planet as a whole.
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    [–]howthedaysgobyNimble Navigator 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
    It's not about the subject matter, it's how you communicated the issue. Look at how you are talking, nothing but leftist talking points and smoke and mirrors.
    Let's take a small business. A family wants to start an aluminum workshop. After getting lathes and presses and such, they also have to invest in systems and programs to deal with the lubricants and chemicals used to treat the metals. Now, I don't think they should be able to pour that shit down the drain, but forcing them to spend another 100% of the initial start-up cost on triple-redundant systems to prevents spills and leaks, training, certification, emergency plans, evacuation plans, HazMat training, filings with local government agencies concerning every last product in their shop, and the list goes on and on and on. ALL that regulating does is add another decimal point into the "environmental rating" of the business.
    When instead of over-regulating, put in COMMON SENSE steps to prevent environmental damage that are 99.9% effective instead of 99.95%.
    Instead, that person is going to outsource the work to China. Where there are no regulations on the types or amount of chemicals they can use in the processing of aluminum, nor are there are enforced regulations on what they do with the waste produced during whatever they are manufacturing. In the end, they end up causing 10x the environmental damage in China than they would have had the work been done in the US. That is the big point on preventing over-regulation.
    [–]OmnibradNimble Navigator 2 points3 points4 points  (3 children)
    Political corruption is more devastating than anything we're doing to the environment. It wasn't the environment that displaced millions of Syrians - it was Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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      [–]OmnibradNimble Navigator 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
      So you don't deny that Obama and Clinton have been far more ruinous than any environmental concern.
      So you ignore that to come here with your talk of "immoral jobs" and with comparisons to a cartoon, but you have no facts about ways that the US can meaningfully "fix" the environment in light of the knowledge we produce less than 20% of the world's pollution. Instead it's just more fearmongering from you concern trolls.
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