---The Obamagenda of killing our nation’s oil and gas
industry is finally being felt locally as nervous politicians buy into the
exaggerated fracking scare by issuing frantic moratoriums all over the place as
if this practice will surely bring the World to an end tomorrow, when we know
that this threatened destiny is simply not true . . . The drilling companies
drill because they own (or alternately lease, I suppose) the mineral rights and
Colorado already has pretty stiff rules regarding how and where they drill . .
. And of course, Obama’s pompous veto of the Keystone Pipeline is never
mentioned in any of the anti-fracking reports or the editorials.
---Reflecting the media-hyped fracking scare, Erie officials
are reportedly all up in the air over some sort of a study that allegedly shows
that levels of butane, ethane and propane in Erie’s air were “large.” , , ,
Dumb me, all along I thought these were products derived from refining crude .
. . But then, according to the news report, the bearer of the alarming
information, a scientist, backed off almost immediately by saying the data
don’t definitively show that drilling is the cause. . . . Having resided in
Erie for four years, 1998-2002, (The Conarroes started the Erie Review
newspaper years before that) my wife and I enjoyed living there but did notice
the occasional smog, some of which undoubtedly drifted in from Denver, also
from a nearby sanitation plant that seemed to contribute . . . But, like it or
not, Erie is the site of a huge, active dump which covers the countryside and
nobody for sure knows precisely what is leaking out of it . . . Not to be
ignored if we abide by scaremongering is Erie’s positioning over an underground
coal field (as are Lafayette and Louisville) that naturally emits methane,
radon and Heaven only knows what else through the ground into the atmosphere.
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