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> Obama supported fracking to punish Putin That is untrue, President Obama hated fracking and did much to discourage it.
by protomyth 9y ago
> Obama supported fracking to punish Putin
That is untrue, President Obama hated fracking and did much to discourage it.
- rdtsc 9y ago> That is untrue, President Obama hated fracking and did much to discourage it. Maybe he said he hated it. I am not sure about the "did much to discourage" part. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/offshore-fracking-06-28-2016.html http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/... --- The fracks occurred in at least 630 different wells off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (see interactive map), and many took place in critical habitat for imperiled loggerhead sea turtles. Oil companies were also allowed to dump about 76 billion gallons of waste fluid into Gulf waters in 2014. --- Not only that, his administration approve fracking with no site-specific analysis of the threats to the environment and also without public involvement.
- protomyth 9y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/politics/hydraulic-fracturing-interior-department-regulations.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/politics/hydraulic-fra... He tried and got struck down. He did what he could without Congress to help.