EDF Endorses Drilling & Fracking Again, Sort Of

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Former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, a very wealthy Democrat who ran as a Republican and then changed to become an Independent, along with the mostly anti-drilling head of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, teamed up to write an op-ed which they sent around to, well, everyone, including MDN. The New York Times picked it up and ran it, so we though we would insert it below. It essentially says regulations so strict they force the breath out of shale drillers is a good thing. So let's continue to let them drill, as long as they jump through fractals of hoops while they do it. The piece is noteworthy because the EDF, the "best" of the anti-drilling wacko so-called environmentalist organizations, frequently is criticized by their wacko "green" brethren because they won't call for an outright ban on all shale drilling. And indeed in this op-ed Krupp endorses shale drilling and fracking--but like we said, as long as it's regulated so tight it leaves drillers with little profit or incentive...

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