What A Surprise - Pickens Defends Safety Of Natural Gas Fracking

[hatrack]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens on Wednesday defended a controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, a day after President Barack Obama expressed concern that the process could pollute groundwater.

"That's the first time I ever heard him saying anything about fracking," Pickens said of the drilling method that uses water, sand and other additives to free natural gas underground. "The president, I'm sure, knows very little about fracking. So he's trying to be, I think, cautious in responding to it saying, 'of course we want natural gas, but ... we want to be sure we're safe."

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He has amassed more than 200 co-sponsors in Congress on legislation that would convert 8 million 18-wheel trucks from diesel fuel to natural gas — which would slash up 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, or about half of what the U.S. imports from OPEC. "It's a nonpartisan issue," said Pickens, who expects the bill to get more than 300 votes in the House. "I think it's going to get out of committee and go pretty fast. It will be law before the year is out."

Pickens said he approved of the job Obama was doing and predicted that the president "is going to be for our energy plan." "If we don't capitalize on natural gas, I promise you we're going to go down as the dumbest group that ever came into town," Pickens said.

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http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Energy-magnate-Pickens-defends-drilling-method-1345637.php

[maxsolomon]

1. he shut Jon Stewart down on the same topic recently

stop being so genial and folksy and old-man cute for a day and go visit people who are directly impacted.

[hatrack]

4. A folksy Dick Cheney who thinks if he has enough money, he'll never die . . .

:puke:

[Angry Dragon]

2. Can't let bodies, polluted water and land get in the way of his millions

[Altoid_Cyclist]

3. Pickens should come to PA and see for himself how blanking safe the process is.

I could introduce him to a lot of people who would disagree with him about the safety of fracking. We'll even supply his drinking water from the frack sites since it's so safe.

We can even let him stay at one of the houses that was destroyed by explosive gases from the fracking.

He can wait at the school bus stops with the local children and the parents who are in constant fear that one of the thousands of semis barreling past over the speed limit while overloaded will wipe out their family.

I don't like to use the word hate, so I'll just say that I really don't like the ###hole.