The House is set to okay exports of fossil fuels with the collusion of many elected as “democrats”. TPP and TTIP are waiting in the wings, but did you know that, accordding to Susan Sakmar (google her: an energy expert) well over fifty percent of U.S. fracked gas has been okay’d by the DOE for export to both free trade and non free trade countries? And export pipelines are proliferating on both coasts to effect the heist of U.S. gas for private wealth. If you have any fantasies of “energy independence” for the U.S., you can kiss those good-bye.
A worthy book by Bill Powers, 2013, Cold Hungry and in the Dark, talks about wildcatter and investor hyperbole, and how fantastical remarks of how much recoverable gas have grossly exaggerated the amount of gas recoverable by fracking. Powers talks about this hyperbole (quoted by gulled politicians), and how well production declines dramatically in all but a few wells after the first year.
He also writes about the “red queen” scenario, with exports, where more, and more, and more land will be ruined (along with copious amounts in the billions of gallons of drinking water: that’s right: fresh water. It is ruined in use, and in the dumping of frack fluid (ruined water).
The gas industry has been deliberately over producing in light of these bits of legislation, even running out of storage room for this gas in anticipation of exports. This has not now, nor has it ever, going all the way back to Dick Cheney’s maneuverings and betrayal of his office, had ANYTHING to do with American energy independence: it is enacting the massive heist of a U.S. asset for massive private profit.
Gas is momentarily at an all time low, and this is being used to promote export pipelines all over the Northeast and in Canada on both sides of the continent. As soon as this leaves our shores, prices will become ridiculous, because there won’t be that much gas remaining, and it will be difficult to extract.
If you want to gain a sense of just how much of a heist this is, Pieridae, Goldboro filed a petition listed in the Federal Registry on December 10, 2014. If you follow the link to their lawyer’s papers, on page fifty, it states that “pipeline and fossil fuel companies” will make over eighteen quadrillion dollars from the sale of LNG to free trade and non free trade countries.
Meanwhile: we have been forced to subsidize this industry to the tune of over twenty billion dollars: they are exempt from clean air, clean water, clean drinking water, and superfund legislation; these companies have taken on massive debt that they are unlikely to EVER repay: the land takings for these massive pipelines are vast, and ruin the life earnings of hundreds of thousands of people while gaming “public convenience” and “necessity”, and not only have our jobs been shipped over seas, but they’re sending our fuel along with it.
By the way: water is being commodified and that’s next.
Ms. Clinton has been all over the world stumping for fracking: her local visit to the Northeast brought disappointment when she referred to this as a “local concern”, while Bernie Sanders had stood with communities: who have uniformly voted against these atrocities.
There is concern by manufacturing companies that exports will raise their costs through the roof, and that there will be no benefit whatsoever to all of the money devoted to this, while renewable energy is being knee capped.
The greenwashing by some faux democrats, in collusion with denialists is appalling: and mostly we are just being played by an oligarchy that is just plain evil, and the greed and duplicity, carried over years is chilling.
No Democrat should be for this: Pelosi is talking concessions: other Dems have fallen in line with these atrocities (Shaheen, in the Northeast).
Look at the allies in this: it was always a swindle, related to Wall St. and the repeal of Glass Steagall.
If these things happen, we will lose public health, as well as a future for conservation land, safety, water, Chreeist.
Please take action.