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Here's a link to an article about how Germany is dealing with the oil companies regarding fracking. This is how it is dealt with folks.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-rejects-fracking-to-tap-natural-gas-a-831764.html
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)Pachamama
(16,873 posts)Now if we could only do the same here......
Petrushka
(3,709 posts)Lotta fracking going on in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia---some of it by CONSOL whose largest shareholder is Germany's own RWE, Europe's largest energy conglomerate. "This is how it is dealt with folks."? (**tsk**)
http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/In_rural_US_gas_fracking_sparks_scare_999.html
http://www.thenewscollective.org/display-related-news.php?itemHeadline=Rick+Santorum's+Big+Coal+Buddies
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Make money on our dumb asses and poison us to boot. It's like they just opened the entire country to the highest bidder and said "Have at it as long as we get our cut."
It seems like that because it is like that.
Petrushka
(3,709 posts)"Hillbillies to the highest bidder!" Feeling like people from a third-world country back then, we could see the rest of our nation going in the same direction. Oh, well . . . . . . Mountaineers are always children . . . and . . . here's yet another link --->
http://www.shaleplayohiovalley.com/
Petrushka
(3,709 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)How is it that everyone else can see what we do not? It's embarassing to be an American anymore. Really, we elect puppets and imbeciles that dismiss basic science out of hand simply to grab as much money as possible. It's disgusting.