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The Costs of Fracking

September 20, 2012 By TXsharon

Earlier this week I wrote about the costs of fracking.

Today, Environment America released a new report: The Costs of Fracking

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Socialism is alive and well in Texas. But it’s Corporate socialism: They get the profit we have to pay.

The American way is to take responsibility for your actions. If there is one thing this report shows it’s that the fracking industry refuses to be responsibility.

In the Eagle Ford Shale of south Texas where heavy fracking trucks  pulverize roads and render then unusable by residents and school buses, county commissioners are raising taxes to cover the cost of road repair. When the counties explored assessing fees, industry hinted at lawsuits.

Arlington firefighters are training for the catastrophic event that is inevitable in a city saturated with drill sites but the fracking industry is suing the City of Arlington because they don’t want to use any of their record profits to help pay for the training.

The solution, as this report shows, is forcing the fracking industry to take responsibility by meaningful fines, fees and bonding requirements.

Until this ridiculous corporate socialism is ended they shouldn’t be drilling at all.

P.S. Next Time the frackers try to give you the chock-full-of-boloney line about the free market, refer them to this article: Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

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  1. GhostBlogger says

    September 21, 2012 at 1:21 am

    When Fracking Comes to Town, Local Residents Have Little Recourse

    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/when_fracking_comes_to_town_lo.html

  2. GhostBlogger says

    September 23, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth

    http://www.propublica.org/article/trillion-gallon-loophole-lax-rules-for-drillers-that-inject-pollutants

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