Fracks of life – & death – for NY pol

From the New York Post (editor comments in green):

One of the state Legislature’s leading backers of “hydrofracking’’ for natural gas has received death threats from what he believes are environmental radicals opposed to the controversial drilling technique, The Post has learned.

“There have been repeated threats to me of bodily harm,’’ Deputy Senate Majority Leader Thomas Libous (R-Binghamton) angrily told The Post.

“There have been calls saying, ‘We know where you live,’ ‘We’ll come to your house’ — that kind of stuff,’’ Libous continued.

Libous said he had notified law enforcement of the threats. (surely they'll get right on this)

Libous also alleged that environmental activists have been making personal and political threats against local officials throughout the Southern Tier region along the Pennsylvania border, where huge deposits of natural gas are located.

Gov. Cuomo signaled while running for office two years ago that he favored fracking, as long as the process can be conducted safely.

Cuomo administration insiders say a final decision may not come until after the November election. (conveniently enough)

Just because this is reported, does not make it true. However, this is how the radical wing of the environmental often operate, look at the Occupy Wall Street crowd for exhibit A. This is why conservatives need to be in this debate, because the debate has been controlled by the far left for far too long.

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Climate Change Is A Hoax, Obama, Like Your Presidency

This scathing piece by Investor's Business Daily is worth reading in its entirety.

In Charlotte, N.C., the president noted that we have "a hundred-year supply of natural gas that's right beneath our feet." He did not say the Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists have opposed fracking and the natural gas boom is being led by private companies on private or state-owned land. 

Climate change is a hoax, and so is the president's energy policy. China has passed us as the world's largest carbon emitter and builds the equivalent of a coal-fired power plant big enough to power a city the size of San Diego every seven to 10 days.

Read the rest of the column here.

We Must Stop Subsidizing Wind Energy

By Wayne Brough

Read the entire column here. But, here are a few key points:

"America needs an energy policy that embraces all of the nation’s abundant natural resources. Yet the government continues to push wind energy, which has done little to create more affordable or reliable energy. After 20 years of government subsidies for the wind industry spearheaded by the Production Tax Credit (PTC), wind energy remains unreliable, economically disastrous, and harmful to the environment."

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"Wind energy has also proved itself to be economically disastrous."

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"An American energy policy that caters to misguided environmental interest groups, wind industry lobbyists, and special interest politicians is flat out wrong. Americans deserve an energy policy that embraces reliable, economically viable, and environmental friendly resources. Wind energy is sadly none of these things. An extension of the PTC will simply continue the use of unreliable, costly, and environmental dangerous resources while benefiting special interest groups rather than the nation as a whole. PTC wind subsidies must end."

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Today's Read

GLOBAL WARMING DEBUNKED? ACCORDING TO TREE’S FROM 2000 YEARS AGO WE ARE IN A GLOBAL COOLING

Today's Read: Common Sense Environmental Policy

By Wesley Coopersmith

The importance of keeping our environment clean and safe is an issue agreed upon by most Americans. We want a clean environment that is not going to pose a threat for us or for future generations. The importance of not only a healthy environment, but a healthy economy is also shared amongst most if not all Americans. Both of these issues, the environment and the economy, need to be considered when evaluating EPA regulatory decisions. Despite the claims of the Obama administration that the EPA is taking common sense approaches to regulatory decisions, both their words and actions suggest otherwise.

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From CATO: The Miracle that Is the iPhone (or How Capitalism Can Be Good for the Environment)

By Marian L. Tupy

Last week I asked a friend of mine if he could recommend a good white noise machine. “Why don’t you,” he responded, “download an iPhone app instead?” I did and the app works just fine. That got me thinking: what other gadgets do I no longer have or could do without thanks to my iPhone? I put together a short list and asked Lauren Kessler from Cato’s art department to create the lovely graphic below. Of course, “dematerialization,” or using less material and energy to produce more goods, is not new.

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From the Toronto Sun: Green ‘drivel’ exposed

The godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria

Read the column here.