Despite the shrill complaints of fracking foes, this productive but tranquil patch demonstrates how much greener fracking is than other power sources – even “green” ones. Fracking should soothe those who fret about CO2. Share the facts from Deroy Murdock at CFACT.org: wp.me/p39tSj-5n7 In contrast, the “Earth friendly,” taxpayer-subsidized wind industry slaughters thousands, perhaps millions, of bats (including Indiana bats) unlucky enough to fly into the giant Cuisinarts that are their turbines. (My friend Paul Driessen of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) has documented this carnage with tragic eloquence.) Nearly a century of horror movies have equated bats with Dracula. Too bad. These hideous creatures do a beautiful thing: Gobble mosquitoes. By one estimate, a brown bat devours nearly 8,700 such insects annually. So, ironically, fracking protects bats, while “ecologically sensitive” wind turbines are butchering bats. This is great news for mosquitoes, which do suck human blood. It’s not such great news for people who fall victim to West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases. Could gas producers frack even more cleanly? Innovation could and gradually will yield still safer and more Earth-friendly production methods. Cal Cooper of the Apache Corporation wisely proposed at a Manhattan Institute energy policy conference that gas companies “could transport fracking chemicals in powder form and mix them with water at production sites, rather than ship them around in liquid form, which risks a spill in transit.” Rather than blindly decry fracking, environmentalists should encourage more ideas like Cooper’s. Beyond that, they should embrace fracking for being easy on the air, water, land, and wildlife – in most cases far easier than the “sustainable” energy sources that ecologists adore.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:36:48 +0000
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