Comments on: Congress Introduces Anti-Fracking Legislation

By: bob day

bob day — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:40:56 +0000

just saw GASLAND the former vice president should be prosecuted for treason and endangering the health and welfare of this country. the haliburton loophole is criminal in many ways

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:27:50 +0000

I just finished watching GASLAND and saw what the people in Wyoming, Colorado, and every other place that Fracking is done, are going through (and dying of). Fracking should be stopped immediately and those resposible for allowing it to be done on BLM land and anywhere in any country should be jailed. What has happened to our country where money for a few is given priority over life. We are killing people, animals and our water sources are being poisoned. Where do I sign petitions? What can I do to help stop this? We have to help stop this!!!!

By: richard lind

richard lind — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:12:57 +0000

Bill Carr sept 4 2010. I sympathize with you sir. Well stated. Keep up the good fight. BTW call into washington and Albany this tuesday with millions of others and we will try to get across to these legislators that Their jobs are at stake, along with our health and water!

By: richard lind

richard lind — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:08:40 +0000

This has been said a thousand times, and Will be said again…. There Are Alternatives to Methane……There are NO Alternatives to Water! Stop Fracking. Now.

By: Cynthia Tuculet

Cynthia Tuculet — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:34:42 +0000

What can we do about this problem? All I hear are complaints but no solutions? Is there any more recent legislation coming about?

By: Shelby

Shelby — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:01:00 +0000

I am completely disgusted by what they are doing to our clean water, and sure some places have filtering plantations and such. For those who go off their well water and/or tap water, they are being poisoned by the larger companies that are going for natural gas. Sure every way we do something for energy there is something bad about it, but do you not see that those companies are killing off wild life and those who are working for them! Those chemicals that are use by fracking, JUST breathing those in is enough to cause asthma, lung complications, heart problems. They dont see the problem of those chemicals because they just want the money and to get something from return. They are slowly killing the wild lands that we call ours, just to see the money in their greedy pockets. I recommend the people above to watch Gasland. Sure, it can put people out of jobs… but is it worth dying from cancer, your brain slowly dying due to chemicals you would be breathing in?! This is just pure nonsense for those people to be out there working around the hazardous chemicals those companies are pumping into the ground and air. Im truly disappointed in this country that I, an amarican citizen, calls home. I am now waiting for my water to go bad… and when that happens, im going to make the president drink my contaminated water.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:56:14 +0000

Awaiting moderation?
The truth about fracking needs to become public knowledge, so people can make wise decisions related to their wellbeing…

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:02:29 +0000

It has become apparent, if not obvious, that damage caused by irresponsible corporations doing the so-called ‘fracking’ is permanent and poses without any doubt, very serious health [and economic] consequences for those exposed to these practices. [See the documentary "Gasland"].
This industry is leaving behind a blighted and despoiled landscape with ill inhabitants, by brazenly practicing what amounts to de facto environmental terrorism.
It must be stopped, with the perpetrators held legally AND financially accountable to those who were harmed.
Legislation enabling these thugs was enacted by unscrupulous lobbyists and politicians in high places, seemingly motivated by greed and must be reversed. Scientific studies by qualified, independent parties were brushed aside and during secret meetings an insane energy policy was formulated.
Stunningly, the EPA was sidelined and the Gas Inc’s were deliberately exempted from complying w the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act by legislators who did not have the health and well-being of the public in mind -just their own.
I advise proponents of ‘fracking’ to educate themselves and not fall victim to propaganda, advanced by the industry touting more jobs and greater energy independence.
Sick people cannot remain productive citizens and pay taxes. Crops and animals cannot thrive on poisonous water [over 550 toxic and cancer causing chemicals are used in the process of 'fracking']. The very health of our country is at stake.

By: Scott Noren DDS

Scott Noren DDS — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:05:04 +0000

Sorry…one last thing. Ask me to come speak in the December/January time frame in Ulysses and I will come.
Dr. Noren

By: Scott Noren DDS

Scott Noren DDS — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:03:24 +0000

If you sit by and do the “Sean Hannity” drum beating of the Democratic Party, then there is no one else to blame but ourselves…we need reform.
Dr. Noren

By: Scott Noren DDS

Scott Noren DDS — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:01:43 +0000

I am for a national ban on fracking, it’s in my web site. I am also awaiting a written response from Congressman Hinchey’s office on whether the allegation that his wife Allison was a Gas Industry lobbyist is true or not. For those that wish to support me, please contact me through my web site email link. Also, one thing not in my web site yet is discussion of HR 3808 which the President is going to veto. Read the Bill and ask why all 100 US Senators including Schumer and Gillibrand, approved it by ‘unanimous consent’.
Dr. Scott Noren
Ithaca, NY
For the reform of the Democratic Party
Not for Corporate Democrats

By: Bill Carr

Bill Carr — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:25:03 +0000

I spent 20 years in the Air force defending this country and it pains me to see that big business is so money driven and greedy that they would sell our kids to pad their checking accounts. for all of you that say that this is good for the economy and we need to keep people working, I say that you should buy some land and plant some fruit trees, buy a couple cows and get on with life. I hate that this government simply wants to collect taxes and denies us the most important protection and that is protection of the land. It is not our land we are just borrowing it from our kids and I have developed a deep respect for the european countries, especially Germany for the simple reason that no persons rights are more important than the protection of the land. In my opinion, no one has the right to do whatever they want to with a piece of property that they choose to call theirs, because it is NOT theirs, It belongs to all of us. If my neighbor is doing something with his land that affects me or my children then that has gone too far. those people that have sold the mineral rights to the gas and oil companies are not the people that are going to get brain cancer and tumers. They aren’t the ones that are going to have multiple miscarriages and still births or have handicap children. It is all the rest of us that didn’t have a choice. This country is my backyard and I refuse to watch it be destroyed by big business and greedy landowners that think that they have won the lottery. I want this fracking stopped and I want the ones that gave the gas companies a get out of jail free card behind bars.