TBP Fracking? What is fracking?

CA Fracking.

longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.

Fracking came out in '47, and don't believe for a minute when our president gets up there and says the Department of Energy 30 years ago developed fracking.

I mean seriously, the Department of Energy did not have anything to do with fracking.

It means large scale hydraulic fracking for gas and massive strip mining operations for coal, the likes of which we haven't yet seen.

So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.

One of the questions from the audience is, with fracking and the natural gas process, what about the problem of methane leaking from that, methane being a worse global warming gas than CO2?

At approximately 7 30AM over 200 cops of the Royal Colonial Mountain Police, or RCMP, descended on a Mi'kmaq protest camp that have been blockading fracking exploration equipment owned by Texas based South Western Energy, or SWN.

Shell Canada has plans to extract methane gas from coal seams that underly a million acres, fracking the coal with hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic chemicals, establishing perhaps as many as 6,000 wellheads, and eventually a network of roads and pipelines and flaring wellheads, all to generate methane gas that most likely will go east to fuel the expansion of the tar sands.