re: #190 Great White Snark

Safe energy? What safe energy? We can’t frack if it’s unsafe. Can’t drill deep in the ocean if it’s unsafe. Can’t go nuclear power unless it’s safe. We can of course have an energy crisis and endur energy and related inflation.

Flying in an airliner is safe. 1000+ dead in airliner crashes in the last year.

So how safe is safe enough for fracking or drilling? Not at all? Pipes break. Trains crash. Trucks crash. Refineries have troubles. How do we move the oil and gas? Make gasoline? Solar and wind is great but there is not even close to enough to fill our energy needs without oil.

So how safe is safe enough?

Why cant we do fracking like the UK?

In the United States, about 750 compounds have been listed as additives for hydraulic fracturing in a report to the US Congress in 2011 after originally being kept secret for “commercial reasons”.[1][2] The following is a partial list of the chemical constituents in additives that are used or have been used in fracturing operations, as based on the report of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, some are known to be carcinogenic.[3]

In the UK only ‘Non-Hazardous’ chemicals are permitted for fracturing fluids by the Environment Agency. All chemicals have to be declared publicly and, increasingly, food additive based chemicals are available to allow fracking to take place safely.

en.wikipedia.org