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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on September 17, 2014 at 6:53am

Insane anti-fracking activists needed only a single day to fire back at the NYT report cited in the OP:

Fractivists return fire

The Times article also elicited this response from our opposition:

Fracking is not bad?

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Permalink Reply by Barry D on September 17, 2014 at 8:24am

Frank,

As is true of all good fractvists, Mark Ruffalo avoids the main point of the article, fracing isn't bad.

Instead he reverts the tried and true tactic of citing a list of misleading information much of it debunked. Tell a lie(s) long enough and it becomes the truth.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on September 17, 2014 at 9:11am

Barry

Yup.

I wanted to post my opinion of Ruffalo.  But the moderator here maintains high standards.  He is quite strict regarding use of certain words.  And I do not want to lose my posting privilege, which I appreciate and value.

So I decided, instead, to remain silent.

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Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on September 17, 2014 at 9:28am

Frank,

Discretion is usually a wise choice.

The larger point is this; if you notice, any time the anti shale folks speak about shale development they use the term fracing to mean the whole process. Again tell a lie (misinformation) long enough and it becomes the truth.

So why the intentional misuse of the term? The anti crowd is also involved in a misinformation campaign about the process of fracing as being unsafe. If the environmental extremists can get people to believe fracing is unsafe they hope to get people to believe the whole development process is unsafe. Therefore, shale development should be shut down.

Thus we see people such as Mr. Ruffalo respond immediately to positive articles such as the one you referenced from the NY Times. These extremists have a lot invested in the misinformation campaign against fracing.

I saw the article and thought about posting it, glad you did. Thanks.

BTW - the use of the terms fractivist and extremist are my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on September 17, 2014 at 11:24am

Mark

I have been for several years of the opinion fractivists are well aware the process is safe, at least within the limitations mentioned in the Times (i.e., not safe if wells constructed improperly, but otherwise fine).

The fractivism of those people has as its actual basis, IMO, two considerations:

1.  Global warming/climate change fanaticism

2.  Don't mess up our rural playgrounds

Fracking, for them, has just been a convenient whipping boy.

So bottom line, the Times' revelations change nothing for them.

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Permalink Reply by NYPAShale on September 17, 2014 at 12:38pm

Those two reasons may apply, but it is mostly about kneecapping the American economy. As has been pointed out by others, including in a new book, the environmental movement is a front for Marxists and their useful idiots. Scratch a green and you see red, and all that.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on September 17, 2014 at 1:03pm

Absolutely right.

Pure and simple, they are watermelons!

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Permalink Reply by Barry D on September 17, 2014 at 4:31pm

Green is the new Red

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