DUers have you noticed a massive PR offensive

[malaise]

from the 'fracking' folks on both network and cable TV?
What's up with that?

[hedgehog]

1. There is a fracking moratorium in NYS - we're on the same shale bed

as Pennsylvania, so there is a lot of money to be made if we let the drillers in.

[Balbus]

2. What are the Puerto Ricans up to?

[Lost-in-FL]

5. ...

:spray:

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

3. It's becoming clear that fracking poisons groundwater.

But they don't want to stop doing it because they get so much natural gas and money using that method.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. And two days after Earth day.

I wonder what they're going to come up with to desecrate Mother's Day?

[wundermaus]

4. Raping mother earth under the covers...

is still rape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEB_Wwe-uBM - Fracking Hell: The Untold Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbIyR-hw7Eo - Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPZqXGBlj10 - FRACKING 101

[malaise]

6. I suspect they know that they are raping mother earth

but they have no intention of stopping.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. I suspect that the drilling industry is feeling the pressure

from the anti-fracking people, and see that we are gaining ground with public opinion. That cannot be tolerated. They have too much to lose with increased regulation and oversight, or going further, stopping this practice. This is a defensive action.

[malaise]

8. Gasland hasn't won them any friends

:hi:

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Yep, they have a lot of work to do to get past that.

There is a whole list of points from Gasland that they have compiled and attempted to debunk---they spent a lot of time watching that movie and going point by point. I love that Josh Fox actually acknowledges that debunking list, and posts it on the Gasland website along with his counterpoints, or as he calls it, the de-debunking. Gotta love it.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/about-the-film/affirming-gasland

[malaise]

11. Thanks for that link

:hi:

[liberal N proud]

9. I have seen several commercials

[Odin2005]

12. I don't watch national "news" on the boob tube, so I would not know.

[Hatchling]

14. Everytime I hear the word "fracking" I think of Battlestar Galactica.

"Frack" was their word for fuck. And we are certainly getting fracked royally.

[azul]

15. Fracting> earthquakes>tsunamis> nuclear meltdown

Follow the dancing mushroom cloud.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. No, that's just goofy.

Fracking may be fucking up water supplies, but it didn't cause a 9.0 subduction earthquake in the pacific.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. It's because

I'M A FRAKKING CYLON, BILL!



Okay, sorry.

[malaise]

19. LOL

:hi:

[Enthusiast]

18. They will frack just as surely

as they will continue drilling in the gulf, spills be damned. The fossil fuel industry is simply more powerful and has more influence over our government than 'we the people'. Time to wake up and recognize that fact.

[malaise]

20. The ad just played again on

M$NBComcast

[Enthusiast]

22. Yup........nt

[rucky]

21. I'm sure flammable water is perfectly safe to drink.

Why would they lie?

[Overseas]

23. K&R.

When I saw one of those recently, I wondered how the ad would look with video of someone putting a match to their tap water and having it catch fire while the narrator's soothing voice talked about forcing the oil out safely.

[annabanana]

24. Oh yeah.. It's been on the air here.

All this clean, abundant, just waiting to be picked up cheap energy as far as the eye can see.

BTW fellas.. just what is IN that super pressurized liquid you're shooting into our water table??

[H2O Man]

25. Yes, definitely.

It is a response to the growing opposition to hydro-fracking. The movie "Gas Land" and grass roots organizations have brought the dangers of fracking to the public's attention. Those invested in the practice are concerned that human/environmental values may restrict their financial interests.

[malaise]

26. At what point does M$Greedia weigh those dangers over

their greed.

[H2O Man]

27. It can't. at least

on its own. The media is only based upon profits. Those who pay the most dictate what is on.

The only potential option is for those who advocate human/environmental interests to apply creative tensions, which threaten to lower the numbers of media-consumers who dine on the individual producers' product.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

28. The News on KPFA this morning was that the Pacifica affiliate in NY took $10,000

from a B of A related corp. to fund some 'fracking' program. Pacifica has ALWAYS had a "No Corporate Sponsors" policy. The new director did not answer calls for a statement. Looks like the corporations have taken over there too.....