URGENT! Fracking facility NJ coast

Dude, wake up. Fracking is absolutely horrible for the environment. Drinking water contamination, air pollution, random gas leaks that blow up homes, etc. That's all no bueno. It might be cleaner burning than coal but that doesn't make it good for the environment. Here's a good article from a reputable source to back my claim.

http://environment.yale.edu/envy/stories/fracking-outpaces-science-on-its-impact

 

Well, it's about fracking time someone gets it.

 

But that has nothing to do with this petition. Stopping a single port will not change supply and demand. Again, not sure why fracking was even mentioned.

 

Pj - a private corporation wouldnt be funded by taxpayer dollars, which is the reason I would want the industry made up of as many private corporations as possible. Gov will have its hands all over it though. I actually didn't read into the ocean fracking ill admit but I am all for it on land for reasons I mentioned before. If your a healthy adult with so.e physical ability you can go to the dakotas right now and make in excess of 60k a year (i wouldn't live away from the ocean for that). Too bad the epa shut down the keystone pipeline because that would have had a beneficial impact on the country too. Just like china got the keystone pipeline after obama dropped the ball on it, if we don't use these resources to our advantage somebody else will, having the same or worse effect on environment. There is no efficient demand for clean alternates right now and with the correlation of fuel prices to quality of human life and economic conditions we need to be smart. If we can improve underlying economy the resources to invest in clean alternates willthen become efficient...

 

The security would be done by the coast guard. At least with the broad water project in the sound it was. They are funded by our taxes.

 

Read the second petition linked in the original post. It uses the usual tortured logic to make the connection between this proposed port facility and fracking, to get you to sign. In the simplified world of petition writers, ports are how you move the product, fracking is a way to extract the product, therefore the port near new jersey will lead to fracking in new jersey.

 

Yeah, just silly. Port or no port, demand (and extraction) will continue to increase. Cummins is starting to move engine development into the realms of natural gas for large railroad and marine. It is cheaper and cleaner, so there is a big market there. This petition won't do sh1t to stop anything. If people want to save the planet and lower our energy needs, they need to stop breeding. Increased population equals increased energy demands.

 

We already have a massive fuel terminal at our ports, not to mention the numerous other hazardous cargo ships that go in and out of Charleston harbor every day. The only thing I fight against is off shore drilling here. That is something to be concerned about and something we can actually stop. The environmental hazards that come from a natural gas terminal are very small compared to an offshore drilling operation.

 

No, not through an Internet petition. You need political pull.

 

I'll bet money that thing doesn't get built

 

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Fracking is going on full force in upstate PA where I go to kill deer and turkeys. There has been some minor spillage but pretty much every local who sold out to let them drill on their property now has a new barn, Harley, and pick-up and there kids are all going to East Stroudsburg paid in full. I know those companies got the governor elected in PA (Corbett I think). he is letting them run amok. Those wells are all over the place.
BUT, in terms of our area (beach/ocean) I'm not even sure if there is enough of the gas they hope to get in the shale layer under the ocean off NY, NJ. DE, MD, VA, NC, etc. I thought it was more of a mountain area thingie.

 

Our genius of a Gov thinks its a good idea to allow uranium mining close to our water source.

 

There is a public hearing on the proposal at the Allegria Hotel in Long Beach, NY tonight and tomorrow in Edison, NJ at the NJ Convention and Expo Center.
Here is a link to the article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20...uefied_natural_gas_terminal_off_nj_coast.html