Short Sunday rant:
Spare me your fracking indignation
Here’s fracking’s spokesman pretending to care about working men and women.
If the industry really cared about the workers in the fossil fuel industry, they would advocate for better treatment and safer working conditions. But, they never do.
Instead they fight against simple emission controls that would curtail deadly hydrocarbon fumes and they fight safer practices to prevent worker deaths.
Let’s take a look at exactly what Bernie Sanders said:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday called for Republicans to abandon the corrupting influence of the Koch brothers and other wealthy energy magnates.
“This is a party that rejects science and refuses to understand that climate change is real,” he said of GOP during the annual Blue Jamboree in North Charleston, S.C.
“I understand if you stand up to the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry, that you’ll lose your campaign contributions,” the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added.
“[Climate change] is already causing devastating problems all over this world. To hell with the fossil fuel industry. Worry more about your children and your grandchildren than your campaign contributions.” The Hill
Workers and their families worry about the effects of climate change on their children and grandchildren.
What workers and their families don’t need is industry financing climate change denial that hurts everyone.
What workers and their families don’t need is industry suing little kids so they can continue to pollute air and harm climate.
What workers and their families don’t need is the continued impacts from the industry’s negligence like this ongoing gas leak: Data Reveals Climate Impacts of the Gigantic, Ongoing Gas Leak in California
Workers need green jobs.
Clean, renewable energy creates more jobs than fossil fuels. Renewable energy jobs are safe jobs unlike oil field jobs where workers suffer “horrific deaths.” Many of these green energy jobs would be located in rural areas.
Renewable energy would help workers and their families by reducing health and climate harming air pollution and reducing consumer energy bills.
So, to hell with fossil fuels.
And, please, spare me your fracking indignation.
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exactly.
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Another good post. Welcome to Texas——crap will come your way!
Sharon,
It was a member of our collective who gave you your first exposure to Big Oil PR hack @SAEverley on Twitter a year or two ago. A little less arrogance on your part might buy a lot more allegiance from ours.
Free Advice
Um, what? I’m supposed to not call out a fracking hack? I don’t know, that’s probably not going to happen.
Our point was, when followers give you input or feedback, don’t thank them by telling them to stop spamming you.
Whoa. Oh that.
A) I was trying to tell you that I am fully aware of the political realities in this country so your unsolicited advice on my wall, not once but twice, was off putting, felt like spam and derailed the truth of my tweet and this post.
B) Your unsolicited advice once would have been fine. But twice? It derailed the point of the tweet, which is the point I tried to make in my reply. I agreed with the statement no matter who uttered it. You also agreed with the statement.
“We”?
I think the arrogance might belong to y’all. In your view, I’m not allowed to say stop. I call that assertive.
Adiós, Sharon.
That’s mature.
“Free Advice.” Well I should hope so, I can’t imagine getting an invoice for that. And who actually pays for arrogant threats these days? To hell with threat bills I say! Fossil fuels are already there.
Excellent post Sharon, thank you.
One of the more blunt safety culture fails: A leak in a HVL pipeline in CO, where workers were in a ditch 8 feet wide & 7 feet deep. ” The “safety” procedures used were crude at best, as the workers without lifelines were directed to hold their breath and go down into the ditch for about 30 seconds to work, before coming back out of the ditch for air. ”
No SCBA was used. 6 workers eventually passed out, one of them died.
http://law.justia.com/cases/wyoming/supreme-court/1988/122028.html
That’s just industry caring about their workers. Caring about them like they do a screwdriver.