If there is anyplace the gang green can expect to get its way, it would surely be California. The state has the highest renewable energy standards in the country, the legislature is currently dominated by a liberal supermajority, and Governor Jerry Brown’s environmental record runs deep.
When the Energy Information Agency reported that California’s Monterey Shale potentially contains more than 15 billion barrels of oil—a supply three times greater than North Dakota’s Bakken and the Texas Eagle Ford formations, environmental groups ratcheted up their efforts to keep the resource in the ground. The weapon of choice? Demonize the technology that allows the oil and gas to be released from the sedimentary rock: hydraulic fracturing—commonly called “fracking.”
California’s legislature had nearly a dozen different bills designed to impede, restrict, or ban fracking. With lawmakers on their side, environmentalists grew cocky. When the bills made it out of committee, Patrick Sullivan, of the anti-fracking group Center for Biological Diversity claimed: “There’s huge momentum in the legislature to halt this dangerous practice.”…..To Read More….
My Take - I have said for some time that the price of
energy is the beginning of wisdom. It was inevitable that at some point in time
real life economics would force the citizenry to turn on the green movement, and once that happens,
as it did now, we will see an avalanche of articles pointing out all the
logical fallacies and outright lies told by the green movement. Their forte is
to make emotional appeals and outrageously inaccurate claims that have no basis in fact, and then
expect to get away with it because the media and the bureaucrats are complicit
and the politicians are cowards. Those days are coming to an end. The next step is to end their funding, and that can't happen soon enough.
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