Cuppa Thought Fodder ~ Dec 17th, 2020 On Trumpery's deregulation rampage
At the end of his political reign of terror, Trumpery scrambles to burn America to the ground and make it as difficult as possible for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to begin the process of healing.
"Later, an analysis by E&E News found that legal deficiencies that led to project delays grew out of Trump administration officials who overruled government scientists and land managers during the review process."
Federal Regulators Are Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built
Because this is NOT HOW THIS WORKS. If your unsafe project fails, you don't rewrite the process, you DENY the project until it can pass muster. Which it shouldn't be able to, because no matter HOW they try to "mitigate our environmental concerns unto insignificance", non-renewable energy sources which require such incredibly intrusive measures to extract simply CANNOT BE SUSTAINED. Fossil fuels need to just stay where they are.
Fracking is just not a viable long term (or short term for that matter) process. It's just NOT.
By the way, we do not know what chemicals are used in the "slick water" because Big Oil says it's proprietary. So what are they pushing past our water table, and what kind of safety protocols -besides paper towels, like the oil companies use for spills HONEST!- are they using?
"Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas."
"Researchers now report that treating the wastewater and releasing it into surface waters has led to the contamination of a Pennsylvania watershed with radioactive material and endocrine-disrupting chemicals"
"Radioactivity from oil and gas wastewater persists in Pennsylvania stream sediments"
OH by the way: this is what big oil companies suggest for spills and accidents like Deepwater Horizon:
"6) CLEAN UP THE SPILL
CEP carries a full assortment of spill clean up products that can work on any spill. The essential clean up product will be CEP’s line of Sorbents. Dependent on the type of liquid you’re cleaning up, CEP has you covered with Oil Only, Universal and HazMat pads, rolls, socks and boom. Often these clean up products will be stored and ready to use in one of our OVERPACK SPILL KITS which can then be used for proper disposal."
BIG PAPER TOWELS.
and THIS is what #Trumpery just loosened:
"Finally, each wellsite has spill management plans in place for workers to deal with should it occur. Steps include cleaning it up, reporting it to regulators and documentation. Clean-up requirements and testing are all mandated by stringent regulations and enforced by regulators."
Tracking deregulation in the Trump era This one has an interactive listing of most of #Trumpery's deregulations across his 4 years of tyranny.
Here's a list of fracking accidents
Thousands of spills at US oil and gas fracking sites
Want to learn more about Big Oil ? This book will blow your mind. Blowout by Rachel Maddow This is a good review to whet your curiosity. I am finding it ... frightening.
Want to learn more about Big Oil ? This book will blow your mind. Blowout by Rachel Maddow This is a good review to whet your curiosity. I am finding it ... frightening.
I absolutely cannot hate #Trumpery more. He would set the world on fire, in order to "get back at" the 81,283,485 Americans who voted against him. He simply MUST have that last narcissistic word, and his "last word" is always to piss on EVERYTHING around him. The more he does this crap, the more I believe we need to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the Law.
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