{"id":18657,"date":"2015-12-30T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2015-12-30T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:06:04","slug":"5-worst-republican-supported-fracking-stunts-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/5-worst-republican-supported-fracking-stunts-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Worst Republican-supported Fracking Stunts of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Barely a week has gone by over the past year that I have not heard another horror story about the effects of fracking accompanied by ridiculous claims from the fossil fuel industry&#8217;s Republican allies that what the victims of fracking saw, hears, felt, smelled, and tasted was not real.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1230frack\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1230frack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1230frack.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"right\" height=\"279\" \/>Once again, in 2015 the oil and gas industry showed us the ludicrous lengths they will go to in order to frack more communities. In the process, they created ample fodder for Comedy Central, and the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jYusNNldesc\" target=\"_blank\">John Oliver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/24\/%E2%80%9Cwhat_the_fk_oklahoma%E2%80%9D_jon_stewart_tees_off_on_fracking_obsessed_state_for_literally_causing_earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Stewart<\/a>, Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore. Here are a few of the worst head-shaking stunts that made the news in 2015:<\/p>\n<h6>5. If the ice is melting, can we drill there?<\/h6>\n<p>Really, Exxon? Are you serious? Separate investigations by <a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/content\/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Climate News<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.latimes.com\/exxon-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> revealed this year that ExxonMobil\u2019s own researchers were aware of the devastating climate impact of extracting and burning fossil fuel as far back as 1981. In fact, over twenty years ago, in 1992, Exxon scientists were convinced that \u201cpotential global warming can only help lower exploration and development costs\u201d for oil in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>At least this story is so absurd that there is growing momentum toward opening a full Department of Justice investigation into what Exxon knew and when. There\u2019s no doubt that ExxonMobil spending $31 million since 1998 to fund climate-denier think tanks and politicians would be central to the case. We still have a lot to find out &#8212; who knows what they\u2019re hiding about fracking? <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.foodandwaterwatch.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=2397\" target=\"_blank\">Take action, and we may just find out<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/fracking\/5-worst-fracking-moments-2015\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is horror story number five of five.&#160; Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a week has gone by over the past year that I have not heard another horror story about the effects of fracking accompanied by ridiculous claims from the fossil fuel industry&#8217;s Republican allies that what the victims of fracking saw, hears, felt, smelled, and tasted was not real. 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