Do You Agree or Disagree With the Sierra Club Declaring War on Natural Gas?
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2012/05/09 06:48:31
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Beating up on coal, America’s most-used source for electricity, wasn’t enough for the Sierra Club. They now declared war on natural gas. From National Journal :
The Sierra Club is intensifying its natural-gas reform campaign and renaming it “Beyond Gas,” a spin-off of its decade-old “Beyond Coal” campaign seeking the phaseout of coal-fired power plants.
“As we push to retire coal plants, we’re going to work to make sure we’re not simultaneously switching to natural-gas infrastructure,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune told National Journal in an interview on Wednesday.
Brune declared that his organization’s mission is about [emphasis mine] “preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can.”
This is a classic bait-and-switch. Not long ago, the Sierra Club pushed natural gas as an alternative to coal. It would be a bridge to renewable energy like wind and solar. In 2008, Carl Pope, then executive director, told Oil and Gas Investor Report that the Sierra Club was all for natural gas [emphasis mine]: “Among the fossil fuels, natural gas is at the top.” He went on to say, “There's a lot of opportunity -- people in the natural gas industry tell me -- to produce more natural gas domestically by using new technologies, and we're in favor of that.”
In the last few years, we’ve witnessed a boom in natural gas production. The Marcelleus Shale in the Northeast, Barnett Shale in Texas, and other areas across the country are producingmillions of cubic feet of natural gas and creating thousands of jobs. However, the Sierra Club switched course. Now natural gas is a villain.
This is rich. When their friends in EPA drop job-killing rules to make coal power plants extinct, the Sierra Club moves the goalposts and wants to eliminate the replacement. They oppose coal, they oppose oil, and now natural gas is off limits. To them, it’s wind and solar and that’s about it. But if they have their way and we start to get more of our electricity from wind and solar, expect them to move the goalposts again. In fact, maybe they already have. Local Sierra Clubs have been and continue to work to block solar and wind projects in Maryland, Texas, Florida,all over California, and elsewhere.
They’ll say anything to appear to be reasonable, but in the end, their answer is, “No, no, no.” The Sierra Club is simply anti-energy, and has no credibility.
The honest answer to our energy problems lies in using all of America’s energy resources: coal; oil; natural gas; wind; solar; hydro; and nuclear. Not limiting ourselves, but wisely seeing how each energy source fits in the marketplace and the environment, will protect jobs and ensure we have enough affordable energy to keep America moving.
From: Free Enterprise
By: Sean Hackbarth
Read More: http://www.freeenterprise.com/energy-environment/s...
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Brian Tristan MacQuillan 2012/05/09 09:46:30
Look at it this way, left to it's own means the free market will work, people earn less, prices drop, consumption remains fairly constant. Now, keep natural resources from the market, even food by removing land from production because of some snail or owl or whatever, or pay farmers not to produce, and prices remain high. Keep natural gas and oil from being produced and prices remain high. Prices remain high, wages drop (median average middle class wage in America has declined) and you consume less. Refuse to secure the borders flooding the country with cheap laber and wages fall. Lower or stagnant wages, increasing prices = less consumption. Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) in a nutshell. It's all there in black and white.
You are aware of what Agenda 21 is designed to do are you not? Slowly and over time to be sure. While the blind such as yourself sit back and not see it coming till it's too late.
Basically give the UN control of all land, resources, and peoples of the earth. And Obama and his administration are buying into it.
Bear in mind that Ignorance is curable by research and education. It is only stupidity that is forever.
but nature is constantly trying to over come efforts like yours to make more stupid.
At least that is what you present in mental capacity, and debating skills.
when was that intent made evident?
i'm not a mind reader.
All three I tire of after a few ignorant posts keep popping up on my Happenings. So Bu Bye!!
no true American could support abortion or any group that does.
SCREW the sierra club
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
When a subject comes up on which I know absolutely nothing, but the Sierra Club has chosen a side, I can comfortably state my support for the opposite position, research the subject at my leisure later, and find that I made the correct choice.
They are nothing more than a mob of scream first/think later idiots.
We have Electric heating, so it applies to us. Even though to use the fireplace for heating is cheaper, and more pleasant actually, we must comply.
But with this bankrupting our society in a rush to Wind and solar etc, is going to bankrupt our society before they can ever become prevalent.
And to say that Fossile fueos are trashing the planet is not true any more. At least here in the USA. They have developed Clean Burning Coal and Gas fired plants, that produce virtually no polution.
Our cars are at least 10 times cleaner now than even 5 years ago. In 2014 Honda and Toyota plan on having totally non polluting Hydrogen cars on the road, and Shell having a Hydrogen pumping station at every Shell station.
Countries like China and India, that could care less about pollution are a different story. And Even some European countries are not buying into the Fossile Fuel destruction of the earth theory.
Do you know WHO spends the most to Protect Nature / Buy Public Lands For ALL To Use and MUCH MORE ? ............... The American Sportsman ! " EVERY " Fishing License , Every Hunting licence , Ammo , Equipment , Etc. " has a tax on it paid at point of sale by Sportsman ! This Fund has been a TARGET of politicians for YEARS ! They look for ways to raid it like the did with Social Security . It is IronClad and they cannot touch it !
........ so if you really want to support nature .......... buy a gun , some ammo , a hunting licence , a fishing licence , Etc. , Etc. ......... More will get into saving the land -AND- wildlife that the Sierra Club ever has .
The Government Has Been Quietly TAKING MILLIONS OF ACRES OF LAND ( our land ) and placing restrictions on ANY use by us . Those People WANT TO RUIN AMERICA .