Pickens gives God credit for natural gas under US soil; reserves spot in Heaven

[wtmusic]

"We got lucky. We showed up with a resource that is even better than the oil, which is natural gas. Where did it come from? It came from our technology in this country in developing the shale. ... I'm convinced, as I get closer and closer to going – I'm 82 and what I mean by going is serious going – that I want to be sure and give all credit where I think it should go. I'm not kidding you, I think it's divine intervention is what happened to the United States. We now have more reserves than any other country in the world."

God has apparently signed off on "fracking", or injecting chemicals into the ground to force out gas - even though the chemicals have an annoying propensity to show up in groundwater.

He has also given His big thumbs up to drilling for shale gas - even though a recent Cornell University study revealed that the lifecycle GHG impacts from methane leaks make the process worse than coal.

As America's water supply goes toxic and the planet suffocates on Pickens' methane, he'll be looking down from his air-conditioned country-club Heaven wondering what in the Heck went wrong...

http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/11/afvi-2010-t-boone-pickens-believes-god-gave-the-u-s-our-natur/

[Angry Dragon]

1. He is the same man that got angry

over the bidding process for oil in Iraq

He said at the time it is our oil, we deserve it. Like he went and fought in the gulf war. He looks at the military as his own storm troopers. The invasion of Iraq was just part of the energy policy of cheney/bush

[wtmusic]

2. A gene splice of Dick Cheney and Orville Redenbacher?

Dick is in-your-face evil; T. Boone is sneaky evil, and is smart enough to put the same old shit in a pretty package.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

3. I've posted this link before, but it's got a lot of information related to the Marcellus Shale.

http://www.donnan.com/Marcellus-Gas_Hickory.htm

It has a lot of other links in it and it takes quite a lot of time to look at everything, but it is very informative on how much damage has already taken place in just one part of PA. The link to Cheney and Halliburton alone should make people realize that this not a safe way to obtain energy.



'Tricky Dicky' the 2nd?
Halliburton tractor trailer parked along a country road near Buffalo, Pa. Frac fluids were exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005 while former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney was Vice President of the US.

[joshcryer]

5. I weep at what they're going to do to the Green River Formation.

ie, the rockies and surrounding federally protected land. If wind interests can get to fuck up federally protected land, there's no doubt in my mind that the gas and oil interests will be allowed to do the same.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

6. Money, Money and more Money is all that some people understand.

The environment is considered expendable regardless of the consequences by the people with money and power.

What we need is about a thousand more people like Gloria Flora. Coal mines, natural gas exploration, tainted aquifers, mountain top removal mining, inappropriate locations for wind farms, ....etc, the list just goes on and on.

This is a link to a local wind farm and a study that was done to determine the actual impact on the area. I'm not saying that wind farms are inherently a bad thing, but they need to be placed properly with as little environmental damage as possible.

This was one of the conclusions in the study.

The cumulative loss of ecologically significant forest-interior habitat totaled more than 2,360 acres — nearly 4 square miles! On a "per turbine" basis, the forest "loss" averaged over 4.1 acres, and the forest-interior "loss" averaged nearly 31.5 acres. The forest-interior impact is among the worst at windplants built along forested ridgetops of Appalachia — both in terms of total acres and especially for its "per turbine" loss.

Rest of article.
http://www.jvas.org/cc_forest_impact_ar_wndplnt.html

[old mark]

4. I remember one of the DeBeers who owned the diamond mines n South Africa

stating that they had been given them by god and had a responsibility to make the best of what they had been entrusted with...delusions of the very rich and those who live to serve their delusions.

mark

[hatrack]

7. That's right, Boone - if you have enough money, you'll NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Pathetic greedy old bag of pus.

[Javaman]

8. Only the rich and well connected get to heaven...

he must be a calvinist.