THIS WEEK A REPORT FROM ENVIRONMENTAL AMERICA DETAILED
SOME OF THE ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES THAT WE HAVE SO FAR
WITNESSED FROM FRACKING IN AMERICA.
IT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
IF YOU LOOK FOR ENVIRONMENT AMERICA FRACKING REPORT, BUT WE
WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOST TELLING STATISTICS --
AND DIET DR.
PEPPER, I HEARD.
WHICH I ACTUALLY LIKE.
THAT SEEPS INTO GROUNDWATER, WHICH IS WHERE THERE HAVE
BEEN SO MANY LAWSUITS OF PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS GETTING SICK.
ARE THERE ANY OF THOSE THREE THINGS WE CAN ACTUALLY DRINK?
I DON'T THINK SO.
YOU CAN'T DRINK ANY OF THEM.
AND IT IS LEECHING IN THERE, IT IS MASSIVE AMOUNTS, AND THE
IDEA THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO ACTUALLY STORE IT WHEN THEIR
INDUSTRY IS INTENDED TO DRILL DOWN AND PUMP FLUID DOWN SO IT
BREAKS APART EVERYTHING, THE IDEA THAT MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE
CONSEQUENCES?
YOU MEAN LIKE EARTHQUAKES?
WE WILL GET TO THE EARTHQUAKES, DON'T WORRY.
BUT
WHAT IF YOU LIKE THAT YOU CAN SET YOUR DRINKING WATER ON FIRE?
WITHOUT FRACKING YOU COULDN'T DO THAT.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO GET YOUR
OWN BENZENE AND ADD IT.
ALSO --
NO KIDDING.
BEAR IN MIND, THAT IS 2.4 MILLION METRIC TONS OF GAS.
IT
TAKES A LOT OF GAS TO MAKE 1 MILLION METRIC TONS.
BY THE WAY, METHANE, MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE TO THE CLIMATE THAN
REGULAR CO2.
96 TIMES, IN FACT.
THIS IDEA THAT IT IS CLEAN ENERGY IS, I DON'T KNOW,
BULLSHIT SPUN BY OIL COMPANIES?
IT'S EQUAL TO PORK BEING THE OTHER WHITE MEAT.
BUT IT IS THE OTHER WHITE MEAT.
THAT IS TRUE.
THEY ACKNOWLEDGE IN THE REPORT,
THIS UNDERPLAYS THE SEVERITY OF THE PROBLEM BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT HERE IS WHEN WE DO THE FRACKING IT RELEASES THE
METHANE.
WE SEE THAT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
LOS ANGELES HAS
METHANE LEAKS PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE, BUT THEN THEY HAVE
TO TRANSPORT THE METHANE AND OTHER BYPRODUCTS, WHICH CAN LEAD
TO ACCIDENTS AND LEAKS AS WELL.
THEN THEY HAVE TO STORE IT
SOMEWHERE AND YOU GET THINGS LIKE PORTER RANCH, WHERE THEY
ARE STORING THE STUFF UNDERGROUND.
AND THEN JUST
MASSIVE LEAKS ON A SCALE THAT OUR PLANET HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE
CAN HAPPEN.
DOING THE EQUIVALENT OF THE DAMAGE THAT LITERALLY
MILLIONS OF CARS WOULD HAVE TO DO.
AND LET'S TALK ABOUT CARS,
THIS GRAPHIC WILL SHOW THE COMPARISON FROM METHANE
EMISSIONS FROM WELLS COMPLETED IN 2014 AND HOW MANY CARS IT
WOULD TAKE TO EQUAL THAT.
EACH OF THOSE RED BOXES EQUALS 10,000
AUTOMOBILES.
SO TEXAS IS DOING ITS FAIR SHARE OF DESTROYING
THE EARTH.
8.1 MILLION.
BUT THAT EMISSION IS STILL BELOW THE PORTER RANCH EMISSION,
WHICH WAS 9 MILLION.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO EXAGGERATE HOW BIG PORTER RANCH WAS.
AND
THERE WILL BE NO CONSEQUENCES IN TERMS OF FINES AND JAIL TIME.
IF
YOU ACCIDENTALLY PUT A RAT TURD IN A DONUT THEY SHUT YOU DOWN,
BUT IF YOU DESTROY A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF THE EARTH THEY DON'T
CARE, JUST MOVE TO ANOTHER INDUSTRY.
PROBABLY GET A NICE
GOLDEN PARACHUTE ON YOUR WAY OUT.
IT IS FUNNY YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK I READ THIS WEEK
THAT THE CEO OF SEMPRA GOT A RAISE THIS YEAR FOR HOW THEY
HANDLED THE GAS LEAK.
WHEN THAT HAPPENED, I LOOKED AT THEM LIKE,
THAT COMPANY IS FUCKED.
YOU THINK, OKAY, THERE ARE WHAT,
10,000 HOUSES?
EACH WORTH OVER $1 MILLION?
THEY WILL ALL SUE,
THEY ALL WANT TO BE REIMBURSED --
SEMPRA MADE OVER 15 BILLION LAST YEAR.
I HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE COMPANY BEFORE.
YOU KNOW WHO HAS HEARD OF THEM?
GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN, THE
GUY EVERYONE IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY LIKES TO CALL MOONBEAM
BECAUSE HE IS SO LIBERAL, BUT HIS FUCKING SISTER IS ON THE
BOARD.
HE IS IN BED WITH THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ALSO.
THEY GOT
EVERYBODY, THEY GOT TOM HAYDEN, HOWARD DEAN, NOW THAT JERRY
BROWN.
JESUS CHRIST, THEY WILL GET RALPH NADER NEXT.
DOING THE STUFF IN CALIFORNIA -- LET'S GET TO THE EARTHQUAKES.
TALK ABOUT OKLAHOMA, THEN THINK ABOUT CALIFORNIA, AND THE
STUPIDITY OF THIS.
THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE, WE CANNOT TALK
ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF FRACKING WITHOUT MENTIONING
THIS.
THIS IS JUST FOR OKLAHOMA, BY
THE WAY --
THE ONLY THING THAT COULD ACCOUNT FOR THAT ARE THE RISE IN
FRACKING, OR POSSIBLY KAIJU ON THE PROWL.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
ELSE COULD LEAD TO A MASSIVE INCREASE IN A PLACE THAT
WOULD OTHERWISE TECTONICALLY STABLE.
SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN THAT IS WHAT IS CAUSING IT.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT OKLAHOMA, IT IS POSSIBLE THEY COULD HAVE A
LEVEL 7.
THEY ARE NOT BUILT FOR THAT, AND THEY ARE CLOSE TO
THE NEW MADRID FAULT, WHICH RUNS FROM ST.
LOUIS TO MISSISSIPPI.
YOU ARE ASKING FOR A DISASTER.
FOR A LOT OF SHORT-TERM MONEY IN A FEW PEOPLE'S POCKETS.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER INDUSTRY THAT IS
NOT INVOLVED IN ENERGY WHERE SOMEONE DOING THEIR SERVICE,
MAKING THEIR PRODUCT, CAN HAVE SUCH WIDESPREAD RAMIFICATIONS.
IF I MAKE CHAIRS, I CANNOT LITERALLY DESTROY THE EARTH
FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES AROUND.
WHEN THOSE EARTHQUAKES TOPPLE
HOUSES -- SOME PLACES THEY ARE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO BAN
FRACKING.
LET'S SAY THE HOUSES ARE NOT DESTROYED, BUT THEIR
QUALITY OF LIFE GOES DOWN BECAUSE THEIR AREA IS
CONTINUALLY WRACKED BY ONE OR TWO EARTHQUAKES PER DAY.
THEY
ARE NOT GETTING ANYTHING.
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS
AND SELL SERVICES AND PRODUCTS, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT
IF IT DESTROYS OTHER AMERICANS' LIVES.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS COMMON SENSE.
THEY ARE ALLOWED, THAT IS THE THING.
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE, BUT APPARENTLY YOU ARE.
WHAT IF
YOU RAN AN AIRLINER AND ONE OUT OF THREE OF YOUR PLANES JUST
HAPPENED TO GO DOWN IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA?
THEY WOULD STOP
YOU, AND IN THE LONG RUN THAT WOULD BE LESS DISRUPTIVE THAN
WHAT WE ARE EXPRESSING WITH FRACKING.
AND THAT IS JUST
OKLAHOMA.
FRACKING HAS RISEN IN A NUMBER OF STATES AND WE CAN'T
IGNORE THE SHORT-TERM POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THIS.
WE ARE GOING
INTO NEW YORK, WE HAVE GOT TWO DEMOCRATS, THEY DON'T HAVE THE
SAME POSITION ON FRACKING, BY THE WAY.
THEY WERE ASKED AT A
TOWN HALL THEIR POSITION ON FRACKING, HILLARY CLINTON GAVE
THIS LONG RAMBLING THING ABOUT MAKING SURE WE KNOW WHAT IS IN
THE COCKTAIL OF FLUIDS, WHICH BY THE WAY WOULD BE NICE --
CAN I GIVE YOU BERNIE'S ANSWER?
WHAT WAS IT?
NO.
ARE YOU FOR FRACKING?
NO.
YOU CAN CALL THAT SIMPLISTIC IF YOU WANT, I BET THAT WOULD
LEAD TO FEWER EARTHQUAKES.
WE HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF
POLITIFACT, THE GRADED BERNIE SANDERS SAYING HILLARY CLINTON
IS SUPPORTIVE OF FRACKING, THEY SAID THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE.
IT IS
TRUE BECAUSE NOT ONLY DOES SHE STILL SUPPORT IT, BUT ALSO AS
SECRETARY OF STATE SHE WENT AROUND THE WORLD AND PUSHED FOR
OTHER COUNTRIES TO BEGIN FRACKING.
THE REASON SHE PUSHED SO HARD FOR THAT IS IT IS THE AMERICAN
COMPANIES WHO HAVE THE BUSINESS IN FRACKING.
EVERYONE SHOULD DO IT SO OUR REALLY RICH PEOPLE CAN MAKE
A LITTLE MORE MONEY.
EXACTLY.
AND AGAIN, JUST LIKE CAMPAIGN FINANCE, A LOT OF
HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS, ONES WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES LIBS,
I BET IF YOU LOOK IN THEIR FACEBOOK POST HISTORY FROM A
YEAR AGO, 18 MONTHS AGO, THEY PROBABLY HAVE SAID HARSH STAFF
ABOUT FRACKING.
THEY WERE AGAINST IT, BUT NOW HILLARY
THINKS IT IS FINE, AS LONG AS YOU REGULATE IT A LITTLE BIT --
THAT IS SO WEIRD, BECAUSE THERE IS ANOTHER CANDIDATE WHO
REPRESENTS THEIR POSITIONS BETTER, YET THEY FUCKING TRY TO
SHIT ON HIM AND THEY GO WITH THE PERSON WHO COULD NOT GIVE A
SHIT ABOUT THEM OR THE ENVIRONMENT.
HILLARY CLINTON COULD NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT REGULAR VOTERS.
AM I WRONG ABOUT THAT?
THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WHERE SHE GIVES A SHIT, BUT ON SOME OF
THE BIG ONES HER POSITION HAS BEEN -- WHATEVER YOU WANT TO
BELIEVE, EITHER SHE GENUINELY THINKS THERE SHOULD BE BILLIONS
OF EXTRA DOLLARS IN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM, OR SHE THINKS
THERE SHOULD BE FRACKING, OR IF YOU THINK SHE HAS BEEN PAID TO
HAVE THOSE POSITIONS, I DON'T CARE WHICH ONE, IT IS THE WRONG
POSITION AND IT IS NOT LIKE WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER OPTION.
NEW
YORK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS WILL GET TO VOTE ON THAT.
I THINK HILLARY'S POSITION IS LIKE THE WOMAN WHO IS QUOTED IN
THE ARTICLE.
THE PERSON ON THE STREET.
SHE'S LIKE, PEOPLE NEED
JOBS AND WE NEED POWER.
YES, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
AND YOU
CAN PULL SOMEONE OFF THE STREET TO SAY THAT.
BUT TO GET BEYOND
THESE THINGS YOU NEED GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION.
THE FREE MARKET
WILL NOT GIVE YOU A GREEN ECONOMY.
IF YOU TRUST THE FREE
MARKET, WE WILL EAT THE LAST FISH, CUT DOWN THE LAST TREE,
AND THAT IS IT.
YOU CAN'T TRUST THE FREE MARKET FOR THAT STUFF.
UNTIL WE LITERALLY DEVOUR THE LORAX WE WILL KEEP PUSHING.
AND THEY ARE ALL SUBSIDIZED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE ARE
PAYING THEM TO DO IT.
YOU GAVE AN EXAMPLE A COUPLE MINUTES AGO.
IF EUROPE IS RIGHT
TO START FRACKING, THOSE COMPANIES IN AMERICA WITH ALL
THAT EXPERTISE CAN GO AND TRY TO CONVINCE THEM THEMSELVES.
BUT
INSTEAD WE HAVE SOME OF THE HIGHEST RANKED GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES GOING AND DOING THAT ADVERTISING FOR THEM.