Natural Gas Opponents Seek Help From Out-of-State

Those opposed to natural gas development have descended to a new low in soliciting petition signatures from people far outside areas that will see any development.  First they looked to celebrities and now they seek help wherever they can find it, including foreign nations.  When will they take the hint that they are in the minority?

A couple months ago during a the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) scoping hearing on the Constitution Pipeline  I spoke as a Pennsylvania resident in favor of the pipeline project.  I felt shale gas developed in Northeast Pennsylvania, where I lived and worked, needed to be brought to market.  A few people in attendance at the same meeting who happened to have different views did not appreciate what I had to say about the project, not even a little bit.  They started a petition and included my contact information on it, resulting in me receiving an email everytime someone signed it.  Talk about feeling important!

Guess what?  A majority of signers on this petition were from areas not even remotely likely to see any impacts whatsoever from the development of this pipeline.  Many probably couldn?t find it on the map and I doubt if some signers had ever heard of places such as Afton, Cobleskill or Oneonta where hearings took place.  I let this fact go and decided not to pursue anything with it, until now.


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Comment by Frank Walker on February 12, 2013 at 6:59am

Fractivists see great opportunity to advance their cause by stopping, or slowing, pipelines and compressor stations.  They know without pipelines Marcellus Gas will have a much more difficult path to market, which will impede drilling.

It's a huge, and common, error to assume filthy fractivists are primarily opposed to fracking for its own sake.  Instead, their opposition to fracking is merely a means to an end.  If the industry were to develop "green" fracking, and this is foolishly being worked on, the fractivists would simply find another excuse to oppose the NG development they find so abhorrent.

NG is the principal and primary threat, it is a huge threat, to the fractivist's fervent desire for a world powered by renewable resources.  They will spare no expense and they will devote all their efforts to stopping NG whenever and wherever they are able, by and through any means available to them.  Fractivists are fools.  But they are also zealots capable of doing great harm.  Their pernicious nature has always been underestimated and continues to be underestimated.   

Comment by Schnoozie on February 7, 2013 at 8:05am

Tom. Great article. Something that is note worthy is the relationship between America Online, The Huffington Post and their little Sisters across the country called "The Patch". These local online newspapers do everything they can day in and day out to reinforce the anti-drilling arguement at a local level. Under the guise of a campy newspaper you can pick up for free at the local Sheets gas station.  It's the same crew, same objectives.

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