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Petrushka

(3,709 posts)
3. No need for a German company to do its fracking at home when it can keep on fracking in the USA.!!
Wed May 9, 2012, 08:58 AM
May 2012

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)
6. Exactly, we're happy to allow it, they aren't.
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:31 AM
May 2012

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)
7. As we said years & years ago in West Virginia: "Montani Semper Liberi" . . . meaning:
Fri May 11, 2012, 04:26 AM
May 2012

"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/

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
5. Imagine having a government that cared about people over filthy lucre..
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:12 AM
May 2012

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.

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