Warning! Fracking May Kill Political Careers

"The Brown meetings will offer our anti-fracking group a chance to reach a broader audience. There are many groups from both inside and outside Ohio which want to make sure that people realize the environmental dangers and long-term health risks known to stem from fracking. No one in their right mind would want shale drilling in their backyard. Corporate greed is providing the power behind push to take advantage of poor people desperate for any type of job." *********, Ohio University student, Athens."

That's a sample of some of the comments on a Yahoo post reporting that Senator Sharrod Brown will convene a meeting on fracking when he gets around to it. To be fair that is one of the more strident comments but somehow the strident voices from the environmental left have a knack for setting the tone in the popular media. I have made no secret that I consider the discovery of gas and oil in the Utica Shale as a positive godsend to the US and Ohio. I have written probably forty post on the subject detailing the the impact on Ohio communities, the corporate players, the economic benefits and the politics. (Enter Utica Shale in the search box to the left and see.) Brown is in a tight spot here so he will probably come out for some banal platitude about the need to balance environmental and economic considerations and the need for "a responsible energy policy". The fact is Brown, like Obama, is not neutral. He and Obama have invested the taxpayers' money in windmills and solar panels and the other accouterments of green fraud scaring the public with the threat of global warming replete with drowning polar bears and crocodiles in Lake Erie. Fracking and horizontal drilling if left unimpeded is a threat to twenty-first century liberalism which is based on scarcity especially scarce energy. Just when the left thought it had sold the "peak oil" theory along comes fracking and blows the theory out of the water. No, the world is not running out of oil. No, the mean global temperature has not risen in ten years so who the hell is going to vote for some chicken little politician whose friends have invested in ethanol and solar panels.

Gasland hopes to become the Silkwood of fracking and when played to an uncritical audience it is alarming. There may soon be another documentary with a different view point.

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In the meantime the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin has completed a new study which finds no evidence that fracking contaminates ground water.