[Peace-discuss] North Dakota

Tue Oct 14 15:23:05 EDT 2014

We mentioned on AWARE ON THE AIR today  how fracking is an important part of the Obama administration's assault on Russia's participation in the Eurasian economy - Obama once again carrying water (or oil) for the one percent.  

The program will be cablecast tonight at 10pm on ch. 6.

--CGE

On Oct 14, 2014, at 1:19 PM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> The News-Gazette says that if Illinois doesn't get on board with fracking, other states will. Here's an excerpt from an article by Laura Gottesdiener about North Dakota:
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> "Now, six years later, the region displays all the classic contemporary markers of hell: toxic flames that burn around the clock; ink-black smoke billowing from 18-wheelers; intermittent explosions caused by lightning striking the super-conductive wastewater tanks that hydraulic fracturing makes a necessity; a massive Walmart; an abundance of meth, crack, and liquor; freezing winters; rents higher than Manhattan; and far, far too many men. To oil companies, however, the field is hallowed ground, one of the few in history to break the million-barrel-a-day benchmark, earning it “a place in the small pantheon of truly elite oil fields,” as one Reuters market analyst wrote."
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