Today I attended the EPA vs Rick Perry Showdown in Dallas.
The Dallas Observer has a great write up.
Downtown, An Outpouring of Thanks to EPA Officials for Stepping In to Regulate Texas’s Air
People were grateful for the intervention and asked the EPA for more.
After I finished my 5 minute comment, a man stopped me in the hall to tell me that methane releases do not have any effect on our air or the environment. He said it dissipates and goes up out of the atmosphere. He said, “Little Lady, you need to get your facts straight.” I think he might have had too much tea.
At noon I spoke briefly at the Sierra Club presser. After that several Sierra Club members told me that natural gas really is a clean fuel. Man! We have a lot of work to do if we can’t even get the environmental community fully on board. The choice should not be one dirty fossil fuel over another! We need to move completely away from fossil fuels!
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Thanks for speaking up today and doing your best to explain it all. There are too many people who refuse to listen!
http://www.epa.gov/methane/
"Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year period and is emitted from a variety of natural and human-influenced sources."
You must have ran into an Industry shill there.
"Little Lady"
How condescending!
"I think, therefore, I am overqualified."
Less thinkers, and more sand diggers, is exactly what the O and G need.
Please Big Al help me, I am going to have to move, if you don't.
I'm pretty sure it was one of the "State's Rights" Tea Party Flat Earth people. Even industry folks wouldn't say something that utterly stupid.
I didn't even try arguing with him. I just smiled and said, "tanks." LOL
Hi Sharon,
Michael Brune is Executive Director of the Sierra Club which has about 1.4 million members and chapters in every state.
Two months ago on 60 Minutes he said, "What we need to do is promote natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and oil."
Two days before in an article published in the Huffington Post he said, "…natural gas still has a relatively lighter footprint than coal or oil." and "…natural gas is cleaner than other fossil fuels – especially coal…"
Imagine – 1.4 million well meaning members are being fed – by their leader – the same deceptive crap that is the foundation of the industry's marketing and public relations efforts.
A lot of work to do – for sure.
Anyone interested see my post: http://frackedagain.blogspot.com/2010/11/sierra-club-michael-brune-bullshit.html
I still am very pissed off about this guy – he should be fired or resign.
Onwards…
When the Sierra Club talks and walks like the enemy they must be the enemy. The enemy of truth, the enemy of justice and the enemy of their own principles. NG production is hurting wildlife and wildlife habitat across Texas. It's removing the wild places where SC folk like to camp, hike, fish or whatever. Their actions must not be tolerated any longer just because we may agree on a few things. we must keep calling them out on this issue. I'm itchin' for a fight with people who should know better but have let money cloud their moral compass.
Ben Zene (my mascot) and I recently testified to the EPA how the summer will have an exponential effect on air quality based on Dr Al Armendariz's SMU study that was featured on the movie Gasland. I compared the average 2007 and 2009 readings for condensate and oil tanks to the peak summer readings. Volatile Organic Compounds increased by 389%, Hazardous Air Pollutants by 1,746%, Methane by 231% and Carbon Dioxide by 224%. The brown skyline doesn't lie. The average tons per day of these pollutants increased an average of 57% from 2007 to 2009. The advocates for sustainable energy sources don't want to kill jobs, we want green jobs because fossil fuel jobs can kill us. Once Best Available (emission) Control Technologies are being used and government subsidies support wind and solar energy efforts like it does for the fossil fuel industry, only then can be start to ween off of OUR dinosaur addiction. We are 30 years behind in this process and the time is NOW to play catch up. The longer we put this off, the more invasive a switch over will be that will interfere with our pampered way of life.