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Host Ira Glass tells the

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:36:46 +0000

Host Ira Glass tells the stories of two professors, each making a calculation that no one had made before. One gets acclaim. One ends up out of a job. The first, Terry Engelder, a geologist at Penn State, was estimating the amount of natural gas that's recoverable from the Marcellus shale, a giant rock formation that's under Pennsylvania and several other Eastern states. The second, Conrad "Dan" Volz, at the University of Pittsburgh, estimated how much toxic crap—chemicals and pollution from gas exploration—might be getting into water supplies. (6 1/2 minutes)

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=440&podcast=1

Actually wind renewables are

Donal — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:54:28 +0000

In reply to Clean coal and dirty water! I

Actually wind renewables are being promoted by a Republican with a fossil fuels background. Denise Bode, head of the American Wind Energy Association is the daughter of an oil exec, was President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America for six years, and as a Republican was an OK energy commissioner for six years and unsuccessfully ran for OK Attorney General and Congress. Renewables probably won't catch on until and unless they are fully owned and operated by the people that own the fossil fuel industry now.

So it's no surprise that renewables, which do have a lot of promise, tend to be operated with as little concern for the environment as is the fossil fuel industry.

Clean coal and dirty water! I

Richard Day — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:43:32 +0000

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Clean coal and dirty water!

I first saw the damage that these shale gas companies are doing on 60 Minutes I think!

Coal and the environment was one of the main themes in Justified this year.

Clean coal and clean gas and clean oil.

Propaganda has reached new heights.

The truth is jobs are lost when a state just says 'no'!

North Dakota is just booming with the new oil finds.

Places like Louisiana and Florida lose a lot of money when the state or Federal EPA shows up.

I do not see any answer because the repubs will never ever ever invest in 'renewables' and many dems will not either.