Suckers

[Michchamp]

Texas town votes to ban fracking... silly little people.

It was almost immediately met by the heavy hand of the energy industry:

On November 4, Denton, Texas, became the first city in the state to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (?fracking?) when 59 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the initiative. It did so in the heart of the Barnett Shale basin, where George Mitchell ? the ?father of fracking? ? drilled the first sample wells for his company Mitchell Energy.
As promised by the oil and gas industry and by Texas Railroad Commission commissioner David Porter, the vote was met with immediate legal backlash. Both the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) filed lawsuits in Texas courts within roughly 12 hours of the vote taking place, the latest actions in the aggressive months-long campaign by the industry and the Texas state government to fend off the ban.
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In the Land Office legal case, though current land commissioner Jerry Patterson signed off on the lawsuit, he will soon depart from office. And George Prescott Bush ? son of former Florida Governor and prospective 2016 Republican Party presidential nominee Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush ? will take his place.
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So there's a George P. Bush now...

I wonder if there's also a George X. Bush, George Y. Bush, George Z. Bush somewhere waiting to continue the family legacy of ruining it for everyone?

"The Energy Policy Act of 2005, which exempts the oil and gas industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act for fracking, is seen by critics as the legacy of ashes left behind by the George W. Bush Administration."
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No, there's no proof fracking causes harm to the environment and completely spoils drinking water supplies... but better exempt it from all relevant environmental regulations, just in case. LOL... I'm never moving to a red state.

 

[KAWDUP]

Texas town votes to ban fracking... silly little people.

It was almost immediately met by the heavy hand of the energy industry:

On November 4, Denton, Texas, became the first city in the state to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (?fracking?) when 59 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the initiative. It did so in the heart of the Barnett Shale basin, where George Mitchell ? the ?father of fracking? ? drilled the first sample wells for his company Mitchell Energy.
As promised by the oil and gas industry and by Texas Railroad Commission commissioner David Porter, the vote was met with immediate legal backlash. Both the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) filed lawsuits in Texas courts within roughly 12 hours of the vote taking place, the latest actions in the aggressive months-long campaign by the industry and the Texas state government to fend off the ban.
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In the Land Office legal case, though current land commissioner Jerry Patterson signed off on the lawsuit, he will soon depart from office. And George Prescott Bush ? son of former Florida Governor and prospective 2016 Republican Party presidential nominee Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush ? will take his place.
​

So there's a George P. Bush now...

I wonder if there's also a George X. Bush, George Y. Bush, George Z. Bush somewhere waiting to continue the family legacy of ruining it for everyone?

"The Energy Policy Act of 2005, which exempts the oil and gas industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act for fracking, is seen by critics as the legacy of ashes left behind by the George W. Bush Administration."
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No, there's no proof fracking causes harm to the environment and completely spoils drinking water supplies... but better exempt it from all relevant environmental regulations, just in case. LOL... I'm never moving to a red state.

Hey, you're in one, if you listen to your governor. LOL

 

[Michchamp]

Hey, you're in one, if you listen to your governor. LOL

well, and my mayor... if he gets any Redder, even his aides will laugh on live TV when he describes himself as a Democrat. but we'll see how things go; the current State House and Senate are overwhelmingly Democratic.

you live in the rare Red state with no fracking currently, although, it's not like you have much water to spare anyway.

 

[tinselwolverine]

well, and my mayor... if he gets any Redder, even his aides will laugh on live TV when he describes himself as a Democrat...

Starting from 1:55 this is a little funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHpZkGVs6Zo