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Hillary Clinton's Big Shift on Fracking - MoJo
Hillary Clinton's Big Shift on FrackingThe candidate of change?
By Rebecca Leber - MoJo
Mon Mar. 7, 2016 2:06 PM EST
Andy Katz/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire
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Yet, she sounded much more rosy on natural gas and fracking years ago than she does now. "With the right safeguards in place, gas is cleaner than coal. And expanding production is creating tens of thousands of new jobs," she said in 2014. "And lower costs are helping give the United States a big competitive advantage in energy-intensive energies."
As secretary of state in 2010, Clinton argued in favor of gas as "the cleanest fossil fuel available for power generation today," and said that "if developed, shale gas could make an important contribution to our region's energy supply, just as it does now for the United States." Her office, meanwhile, promoted fracking in developing nations.
After leaving the Obama administration in 2014, Clinton still emphasized the benefits of fracking, implying that strict limits on fracking should be the exception to the rule. In 2016, Clinton has flipped her emphasis, as Sanders has gained an edge from his anti-fracking stance: Now, she suggests it will be a rare, unlikely case when fracking should be allowed.
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Yet, she sounded much more rosy on natural gas and fracking years ago than she does now. "With the right safeguards in place, gas is cleaner than coal. And expanding production is creating tens of thousands of new jobs," she said in 2014. "And lower costs are helping give the United States a big competitive advantage in energy-intensive energies."
As secretary of state in 2010, Clinton argued in favor of gas as "the cleanest fossil fuel available for power generation today," and said that "if developed, shale gas could make an important contribution to our region's energy supply, just as it does now for the United States." Her office, meanwhile, promoted fracking in developing nations.
After leaving the Obama administration in 2014, Clinton still emphasized the benefits of fracking, implying that strict limits on fracking should be the exception to the rule. In 2016, Clinton has flipped her emphasis, as Sanders has gained an edge from his anti-fracking stance: Now, she suggests it will be a rare, unlikely case when fracking should be allowed.
More: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/03/hillary-clinton-debate-fracking?google_editors_picks=true
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