re: #33 Gus 802

I think it should be obvious here that the Republicans are just orchestrating this hearing not to defend or support fracking but to slam and criticize the EPA. Politics as usual. They’re not interested in the science. The long game here is this new bizarre GOP platform of destroying the EPA. Which of course was brought to you in large part by Richard Nixon.

This hearing’s more for the benefit of their “campaign contributors” in the natural gas industry than it is anything else. Especially by putting it behind closed doors, as the industry’s been asserting for years (backed up by the previous administration’s love of playing footsie with the fossil fuel boys) that the stuff in fraking fluid is a “trade secret” that simply can’t get out. The reality is that, due to shoddy cement work, this shit is turning up in local drinking water supplies and they’re looking at years of litigation if it can be proven that fraking fluid is the culprit.