2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie will ban fracking in America. This is a fact. Pass it on if you FeelTheBern...
Broward
(1,976 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)The pipes are already buried and the gas is flowing. Nothing on this earth is going to interrupt that unless millions of people literally stand in a group to make that happen.
Honestly I just don't see how when in most of the communities being fracked even the Democrats support it because they think it is jobs and money.
Yuugal
(2,281 posts)Good luck in NY Shillary, NOT. We just fought a bloody battle against fracking and we are ready for another. Leukemia for my kids and profit for hers!
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)It's more than just Wall Street, it's the FF industry as well. See this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016146952
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Cavallo
(348 posts)People should also google Hillary Clinton Fracking.
The Clinton Foundation takes money from the Fracking Lobby and Hillary has done pro fracking speeches all over the world.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And/or "I have a friend who lives in Oklahoma who says his water tastes fine."
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Thinks the mini quakes are great for rocking the baby to sleep"
Says Quakes help his state become a leader in building technology."
Said quakes are going to be great for the local economy, because movie producers can film apocalyptic destruction scenes there without the excess costs of special effects."
Showed me this super cool trick where he takes ordinary water from the tap, and lights it on fire!!! For some reason I can't replicate it here at home. He's great at that Houdini stuff."
Persondem
(1,936 posts)Nice idea, but just how is he going to do that with a hostile legislative branch? Executive orders can only apply to federal lands at best.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)If so, an Executive Order could prohibit the EPA from issuing new permits.
De Facto ban.
Persondem
(1,936 posts)"A few months after the reports release, the 2005 Energy Policy Act was passed, exempting the practice of fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act, based in part on the EPA study, leaving regulation to states."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fracking_regulations
brush
(53,467 posts)If he gets elected are you all going to abandon him in the 2018 elections like was done to Obama in 2010 if he can't get the obstructionists to go along with a fracking ban?
We've seen this movie before.
Stallion
(6,473 posts)Bernie won't even get Congress to vote on a Fracking Ban
brush
(53,467 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)That doesn't mean he's going to be able to ban it by fiat.
However you can reasonably assume he'll fight harder to do so than Clinton.