Radical Enviro Groups Push Hillary to Go Extreme
You think Hillary is a lot more moderate and reasonable when it comes to fracking and the environment? You know that Crazy Bernie Sanders doesn’t stand a chance, so you can breathe easier? Think again. Some of the most extreme and radical environmental groups who were backing Crazy Bernie are now sidling up to Hillary–and pushing her to go extreme when it comes to fracking and environmental issues. You should be concerned that she’ll do just that. After all, Hillary herself said, “By the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place” (see A President Hillary Clinton Would Ban Most Fracking). So she’s already predisposed to ban it–and now we read that Big Green Gangster groups like the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and others are cozying up to Hillary, hoping they can push her to ban fracking outright…
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We have to confess this story completely escaped us–until now. But we think we know why. We spotted a story (below) in a Wheeling, WV newspaper about an Ohio driller who was caught–back in 2011–dumping about 50 gallons per week of brine from some of his oil wells into an open ditch in Monroe County, OH. The story implies the brine (i.e. wastewater) is from fracked wells. The story is wrong. The brine is from conventional oil wells, not fracked shale wells. The driller/operator of the wells is one Donald Hercher and he’s just been sentenced to four days in jail, two years of probation, and a $70,000 fine. Aside from setting the record straight, the reason the story interests us is because of several other aspects of Hercher’s punishment–he’s being forced to write and publish an article in three trade journals “to educate readers on the ‘Waterways of the U.S.'” and to donate $5,000 to a private organization…
