At what point did
you stop ascribing good intentions to the left?
Perhaps it was when you learned that the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal”
campaign was financed by a $26 million gift from Chesapeake
Energy, a natural gas company that benefitted from regulations
shifting utilities from burning coal to natural gas.
Or perhaps it is
when you learned that the same Sierra Club that was strangely silent on
hydraulic fracturing while going “Beyond Coal” suddenly became inflamed against
“fracking” when the Chesapeake Energy “gift” was reported?
It might have
been when you discovered that the big scene in the anti-fracking documentary
Gasland, where the storyteller lights water directly from the tap on fire was nothing unusual as
the water in the area has a high methane content and has been ignitable well
before fracking ever came to town. Or did
you lose your innocence when it was revealed that the big Matt Damon
anti-fracking movie bomb, “Promised Land”, was
financed by oil exporter United Arab Emirates?....To Read More…..
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