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Tell The Bureau Of Land Management: Ban Fracking On Federal Lands

The Obama administration just released its first major fracking policy--the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rules for fracking on 600 million acres of public land. And it’s even worse than we feared.1

In a major concession to the fracking industry and its lobbying efforts, the proposed rules are even weaker than previous drafts of the rules.2 3 And they do nothing to close Dick Cheney’s infamous “Halliburton loophole,” which exempts fracking from key parts of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act.4

Of course, it’s become clear that there is simply no safe way to frack. So even worse than the specific concessions made to industry in the draft regulations is the assumption that fracking should be allowed to continue on federal lands despite overwhelming evidence that it endangers our air, water and climate.

The BLM is accepting public comments on its proposed fracking rules for 30 days. We need to let the administration know that these rules are totally inadequate. The administration needs to ban fracking on public lands – not cave to the industry and endanger our health and safety.

Submit a public comment telling the Bureau of Land Management: Ban fracking on federal lands.

An area of federal land larger than the entire state of Florida is currently under lease for oil and gas extraction, so this is one of the most important fracking policy decisions the Obama administration will make.5

Unfortuanately, every indication is that the White House is still putting the interests of oil and gas companies before the health and safety of American communities. The proposed regulations let the industry keep secret the toxic chemicals it injects underground by designating them as "trade secrets" without oversight from the BLM. The rules allow the industry to store contaminated waste in massive open pits, which can release dangerous air emissions and leak toxins into groundwater. And the rules do nothing to prevent the industry from fracking wells right next to homes and schools.

And of course, the harm fracking does to local communities is compounded by its significant contribution to the climate crisis.6 As the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passes 400 parts per million--well beyond what many scientists say is safe--the Obama administration should be working to keep its promise to confront climate change, not encouraging the extraction of vast new reserves of dirty oil and gas.

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Most of you who have followed this blog from its inception have surmised, rightly or wrongly, that I do not buy into the official 9/11 account. I never did,- at first, believing it was an inside job with no outside interference. As more facts surfaced, I began to believe the involvement of other nations. I shared my feelings with few, knowing what a volatile and sensitive subject this was. I had also learned that people believe what they want, regardless of what is presented as far as solid hard facts. I became tired and fatigued by the constant harassment I had received for my views.

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Did you know that? I didn't know that. And I read headlines in several languages every bloody day of the week. Not a peep. For five years, we have known that at least one of the planes that was 'supposedly' hijacked and 'heroically' driven into the ground by its passengers was blown out of the sky on the order of the vice president of the United States. Didn't we just see memorials on the anniversary of that dreadful, awful, hair-raising day in New York, and Washington DC, and in Pennsylvania?

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Rumsfeld slips up and admits flight 93 shot down -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNuosBnlw5s&feature=related and best for last:

Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1QAR5gQrc&feature=related

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