Un-Natural Gas: Fracking Set to Shake Up German Campaign

[sysop]

Germans are wary of fracking, but that hasn't stopped Berlin from moving ahead to create legal guidelines for the controversial natural gas extraction method. The opposition is up in arms and the issue could dog Chancellor Merkel as she campaigns for re-election.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-883482.html

[Macadore]

I grew up in Oklahoma where fracking was a common occurrence. I drove a frack truck in the Seventies. The environmentalist furor over this is much ado about nothing.Do you want to be free from extortion by the Middle East and Russia or not? Who benefits if Germany does not develop it's oil and gas resources?

[gasblogger]

Not much to worry about. This has been going on in the USA for decades without major problems. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal in all respects.

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It is possible for the whole world to drastically cut coal burning and benefit the health of all. Coal pollution travels around the world. http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c02c.html

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http://green.autoblog.com/2013/01/23...lobal-warming/

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