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April 2016 Fracking – Clinton’s legacy
What
has largely escaped media attention is Hillary Clinton’s close ties to the fracking
industry. As Secretary of State, her legacy is indelibly linked to this
industry which contributes significantly to global warming, drinking water
contamination and land destabilization (earthquakes). She travelled the world promoting
American-style fracking. She
established a new bureau with a staff of 60 plus promoting energy resources
with a special focus on fracking. As a surrogate of American companies like
Chevron, she sought to encourage countries like Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea,
and Bulgaria to partner with American companies to purchase fracking
technology.
Sensing
the winds of change, Clinton has said she would now defer to some states and
municipal governments that might ban fracking and hoped for fracking that is environmentally sound and well
regulated. Sadly, Clinton ignores the inconvenient truth that no such
regulation exists. The federal government doesn’t even know how the extremely
toxic, environmentally damaging methane is leaked from these fracked gas well
sites.
The
contrast with Bernie Sanders could not be starker. He has called for a national
ban on fracking.
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