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Originally Posted by EonBlue
They are only doing this to reduce CO2 emissions. CO2 is not pollution. Even if it were this will have no impact on a global scale.
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Not true. CO2 was declared a pollutant. The EPA lumped carbon dioxide with five other gases -- methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride -- into a single class for regulatory purposes. That's because they share similar properties: All are long-lived and well-mixed in the atmosphere; all trap heat that otherwise would leave the earth and go into outer space; and all are "directly emitted as greenhouse gases" rather than forming later in the atmosphere.
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Originally Posted by EonBlue
All this is going to do is to lead to more of that awful fracking that you hate so much and drive up the cost of natural gas.
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Hopefully not. There are plenty of green alternatives.
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Originally Posted by Sly
You are suggesting that he is against United States fracking for environmental reasons, but okay with Canadian fracking for economic reasons. We finally agree on something. He is a hypocrite!
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I'm not a hypocrite. I don't want tracking anywhere, not in Canada and not in the US, at least not in its current highly unregulated state. The council of Candians is calling for
a country-wide halt on fracking operations. , and the practice has also been banned in Quebec. Read
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-is...sial-1.1505246
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Originally Posted by 12clicks
Here amongst the intelligent, we understand that these regs will not only jack prices up for energy but also create a shortage where we won't even be able to meet demand.
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The EPA is, By Law, making the coal industry reduce emissions so that you and your future kids can breathe. IF the price of coal goes up, isn't it worth the price? And you do know that not all of your electricity comes from coal, right? In the US, only 37% of electricity comes from coal. 93% of electricity in Kentucky comes from Coal, which is very disturbing. Kentucky can do like the rest of the world, and and balance their own power grid out by getting electricity from other sources including renewable energy. They have over 15 years to make it happen.