NPR is now a fracking industry shill

[Dex]

Well, it looks like National Public Radio is now a mouthpiece for Shell and other frackers. As a bleeding heart liberal, it is very hard for me to give up on NPR. This interview is a lovefest between the fracking industry and NPR. What the frack? Heads-up New Yorkers: your nice clean water is about to get fracked up.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140606249/daniel-yergin-examines-americas-quest-for-energy

Excerpt from interview:

"It comes down to employment. Shale gas has created hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last five years in the United States. It's brought $1 billion of revenue into the state government of Pennsylvania," Yergin says. "It does have a transformative impact."

Yeah! Turning clean drinking water into flammable toxic water is certainly transformative.

[Luke]

It is not only by your place.

My country is for all practical reasons partitioned and they just start pilot drilling. Excuse here is "energy sovereignity from Russia" (that half of drilling companies are Russian and the other half yankee, thats glossed over, just as flamable water is .. oh and do not forget about the cesspool for drill waste that must be on every site - this is where fracking fluid gets dumped when it is used over - of course companies are allowed to keep this stinking ❤❤❤❤ without even attempt of recycling, and they are not liable to even clean it up after they stop drilling .. all courtesy of special treatment due being 'crucial to energetic safety of the country)

Same ❤❤❤❤ is going on in waters near Cyprus too.

Different spiel in every place, but the people that in few years will have demolished environments cratered with black-goo pools would be quite universal sight throughout the world.

[Dex]

It is not only by your place.

My country is for all practical reasons partitioned and they just start pilot drilling. Excuse here is "energy sovereignity from Russia" (that half of drilling companies are Russian and the other half yankee, thats glossed over, just as flamable water is .. oh and do not forget about the cesspool for drill waste that must be on every site - this is where fracking fluid gets dumped when it is used over - of course companies are allowed to keep this stinking ❤❤❤❤ without even attempt of recycling, and they are not liable to even clean it up after they stop drilling .. all courtesy of special treatment due being 'crucial to energetic safety of the country)

Same ❤❤❤❤ is going on in waters near Cyprus too.

Where do you live?

What is also absurd is that people assume that the gas will stay in the country from which it is fracked -- increasing energy "independence". In reality, frackers like Shell are multinational corporations with allegiance to no nation. They will sell it to the highest bidder, leaving the fracked nation with a huge mess, no revenue and NO independence. They think we are idiots.

[pillaroflight]

I gave up on NPR years ago. They have been a mouthpiece for the Military Industrial Complex since the Iraq War II, if not before. Most people didn't realize what had happened to their wonderful liberal intellectual station (I liked it too)--it was a stealth takeover--which made the propaganda all the more insidious.

[Modwiz]

I gave up on NPR years ago. They have been a mouthpiece for the Military Industrial Complex since the Iraq War II, if not before. Most people didn't realize what had happened to their wonderful liberal intellectual station (I liked it too)--it was a stealth takeover--which made the propaganda all the more insidious.

You sure got that right.

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Well, it looks like National Public Radio is now a mouthpiece for Shell and other frackers. As a bleeding heart liberal, it is very hard for me to give up on NPR. This interview is a lovefest between the fracking industry and NPR. What the frack? Heads-up New Yorkers: your nice clean water is about to get fracked up.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140606249/daniel-yergin-examines-americas-quest-for-energy

Excerpt from interview:

"It comes down to employment. Shale gas has created hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last five years in the United States. It's brought $1 billion of revenue into the state government of Pennsylvania," Yergin says. "It does have a transformative impact."

Yeah! Turning clean drinking water into flammable toxic water is certainly transformative.

The preponderance of neocon guests these past years was the canary in the mine. The canary died shortly after Gulf War 2.

[reaver]

What is also absurd is that people assume that the gas will stay in the country from which it is fracked -- increasing energy "independence". In reality, frackers like Shell are multinational corporations with allegiance to no nation. They will sell it to the highest bidder, leaving the fracked nation with a huge mess, no revenue and NO independence. They think we are idiots.
Here in Mexico we have a single oil/petrol company which is supposed to be owned by the government, in reality various groups have their hand in the pot and it is far from being a public company... those in charge sell the oil which they extract to the USA mostly... then the USA companies process it and re-sell it to Mexico at high prices... I assume that's what Shell does, get cheap raw materials and then re-sell the processed products at ludicrous prices... then they get fines for their contaminating ways and the common citizen ends up paying the price financially and biologically.

Those huge corporations are nations by themselves really, what we know as countries are nothing more than vassal states... or should I say vassal corporate bodies.

[wynderer]

big anti-fracking protests/meetings going on here in the FingerLakes -- it will be like the similar anti-Walmart protests some years ago -- Walmart appeared to back down, waited a while, then found sell-out local elected & appointed officials, & suddenly -- presto! a Walmart appears!

i agree about NPR -- including 'Democracy Now' -- when the home of vox of voxnyc.com was raided by 40 CIA, FBI , & other gov agencies & his website shut down during the Bush years [the only USA website i know of thus raided], Amy Goodman did an interview w/him, but it never aired

[Going by]

Here in Mexico we have a single oil/petrol company which is supposed to be owned by the government, in reality various groups have their hand in the pot and it is far from being a public company... those in charge sell the oil which they extract to the USA mostly... then the USA companies process it and re-sell it to Mexico at high prices... I assume that's what Shell does, get cheap raw materials and then re-sell the processed products at ludicrous prices... then they get fines for their contaminating ways and the common citizen ends up paying the price financially and biologically.

Those huge corporations are nations by themselves really, what we know as countries are nothing more than vassal states... or should I say vassal corporate bodies.

same for canada

[Luke]

<- Poland. Scaring with "Big bear from the east" works 100%, pull that argument in any discussion, and you just see the lights in people eyes going out. Everything that is "Agains BigBear" is GOOD, no questions asked.

Shell- those ones are really tricky. It is not only oil industry, but also most of so called "renewables" - wind power, solar energy, ethanol. Fingers in any pie, especially if it is subsidized.

Then you read about solar plants that seem to produce power also in the night (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elmundo.es%2Felmundo%2F2010%2F0 4%2F12%2Fcastillayleon%2F1271102205.html), by the mystery of price spread between oil and subsidized "green" energy. And so on , and so on. If you have money and connections, you can really make a buck fast on those (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html), you just need to know where subventions will go. And then you have abandoned wind farms no-one cares to repair (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/15/24-hours-of-climate-reality-gore-a-thon-hour-17/)- with subsidy over repair costs outpace any gains.

This is bloody crazy, wherever you look. Whatever you choose - the pile of toxic goo in backyard and flaming water or unsustainable "alternative power" that claims swaths of land - we, as people, do not win.

[Dex]

Shell- those ones are really tricky. It is not only oil industry, but also most of so called "renewables" - wind power, solar energy, ethanol. Fingers in any pie, especially if it is subsidized.

Then you read about solar plants that seem to produce power also in the night (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elmundo.es%2Felmundo%2F2010%2F0 4%2F12%2Fcastillayleon%2F1271102205.html), by the mystery of price spread between oil and subsidized "green" energy. And so on , and so on. If you have money and connections, you can really make a buck fast on those (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html), you just need to know where subventions will go. And then you have abandoned wind farms no-one cares to repair (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/15/24-hours-of-climate-reality-gore-a-thon-hour-17/)- with subsidy over repair costs outpace any gains.

This is bloody crazy, wherever you look. Whatever you choose - the pile of toxic goo in backyard and flaming water or unsustainable "alternative power" that claims swaths of land - we, as people, do not win.

We have a difference of opinion about renewables like solar and wind, but we can agree to disagree. :)