Latest Opponents of Fracking…German Beer Makers

[The Straight Story]

Serious opposition to hydraulic fracturing has appeared in Germany, where makers of beer have cited concerns with the drilling practice.

The Association of German Breweries says fracking’s potential impact on groundwater supplies could jeopardize the country’s 497-year-old legal tradition of producing pure beer. German beer is allowed to be made only from malt, hops, yeast and water.

“We are concerned that fracking endangers the brewing water that more than half of Germany’s breweries take from private wells,” Marc-Oliver Huhnholz, a spokesman for the group, told Bloomberg. “And that it threatens our absolutely pure beer.”

Many politicians are taking note of the fracking criticism. Chancellor Angela Merkel is backing legislation in her coalition that would outlaw fracking in some areas of the country.

http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/latest-opponents-of-frackinggerman-beer-makers-130528?news=850138

[Berlum]

1. Maybe this will wake up the RepubliBaggers

We know RepubliBaggers don't give a feather or a fig about the land, but Shitty Beer could finally wake them up and make the environmental travesty of freaking Fracking a RepubliBagger Cause Celebre !

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Fracking does not seem to offer anything but short term financial gain to big oil...

“Governments and industry must recognize that shale gas and oil are not cheap or inex­haustible,” he wrote in Nature. “70% of US shale gas comes from fields that are either flat or in decline. And the sustainability of tight-oil production over the longer term is questionable.”

David Hughes, who is a geoscientist and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute

He says, in the future, we can expect at least the same frenzied rate of drilling – but less and less oil and gas from each well on average.

Here's the link: http://desmogblog.com/2013/04/29/faster-drilling-lower-returns-shale-plays-nationwide

[Skink]

3. Well there is that law