Rubio Resigns: Was CEQA “Reform” Just About Fracking?
So why would fracking proponents care to push for changes to CEQA? Currently, California and the United States do not have regulations in place to address fracking, and CEQA has been largely ignored when it comes to this extraction process. But in 2011, California Department of Conservation employees who review permits for new fracking projects (correctly) argued that CEQA review should apply to these projects. In response, the Brown Administration promptly fired them. But with the law on the side of CEQA proponents, companies like Chevron had to know that California’s premiere environmental law would delay and possibly limit their fracking projects. That’s where Thomas and Rubio came in, joined by longstanding business critics of CEQA.
I hate to be cynical about the reform effort, and there certainly are good reasons to reform CEQA in sensible ways. But we need better environmental outcomes in this state, not worse ones. And allowing fracking supporters to rewrite environmental laws strikes me as a bad thing for the state from the get-go. In a way, we can now thank Senator Rubio for bringing his true interests to the public’s attention with this surprising news.
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Today over 100 billion gallons a year of fresh water is turned into toxic fracking fluid. The technology to transform it back to drinkable water does not exist. And, even if it did, where will we put all the radioactive substances we capture from it? This figure will double in the next five years if this crazy policy continues
We need a united nations ban on turning fresh water into fracking fluid now.
The gas millionaires will have nothing to spend their money on because they are drowning our green earth with fracking fluid.
Jesus turned the water into wine but Satan turns it into fracking fluid.
If you can help to get this message out please do.
How long will it take to turn all the fresh water on Planet Earth into Toxic Fracking fluid, its just a matter of time.
Crazy or what?
The united nations have made a resolution that everyone is entitled to fresh drinking water and sanitation Fracking contradicts this resolution and must stop now.
My calculations are confirmed by world leading prize winning ecologist Sandra Steingraber
Peter Baxter
Today over 100 billion gallons a year of fresh water is turned into toxic fracking fluid. The technology to transform it back to drinkable water does not exist. And, even if it did, where will we put all the radioactive substances we capture from it? This figure will double in the next five years if this crazy policy continues
We need a united nations ban on turning fresh water into fracking fluid now.
The gas millionaires will have nothing to spend their money on because they are drowning our green earth with fracking fluid.
Jesus turned the water into wine but Satan turns it into fracking fluid.
If you can help to get this message out please do.
How long will it take to turn all the fresh water on Planet Earth into Toxic Fracking fluid, its just a matter of time.
Crazy or what?
The united nations have made a resolution that everyone is entitled to fresh drinking water and sanitation Fracking contradicts this resolution and must stop now.
My calculations are confirmed by world leading prize winning ecologist Sandra Steingraber
Peter Baxter