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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Fracking. Are you for it or against it? [View all]doc03
(35,396 posts)26. It is the only thing keeping this area out of a full blown depression since we
lost all our steel jobs and most coal jobs. The gas companies ran a major pipeline near me last summer, today a stranger wouldn't even
know it was there. They built a compressor station about a mile from here last summer, today the land has been restored better than it was and they even put new trees in. The plant looks like a park.
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Against. Also against coal mining (but not expecting it to end immediately)
Alex4Martinez
Jun 2016
#1
Most is for Export--Scheduled to be shipped off-shore via 10 LNG terminals on both coasts.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2016
#15
Links... One of the reasons why the Panama Canal was widened, not just for superships, for US Export
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2016
#30
Dang! Another Panama Canal article. This one ties US exports to the increased production from shale.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2016
#31
with the kind of govt direction of a WWII type energy transformation advocated by Bernie ...
cloudythescribbler
Jun 2016
#3
that 20 years has been too slow -- we need a RAPID WWII type transformation
cloudythescribbler
Jun 2016
#10
how much can be accomplished in 'a few years' is indeed a technical question ...
cloudythescribbler
Jun 2016
#21
these exemptions (like those of Price/Anderson for nuclear) are obscene
cloudythescribbler
Jun 2016
#11
What should a President do if the GOP agreed to fund alternative energy if fracking could continue?
randome
Jun 2016
#14
+1. Unfortunately, such reasoned answers aren't acceptable nowadays. Question to me --Is natural gas
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#32