{"id":19113,"date":"2016-01-17T01:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T09:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19113"},"modified":"2016-01-17T01:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T09:13:34","slug":"the-great-frack-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/the-great-frack-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Frack Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in BC, the provincial Liberal government (no relation to the federal Liberals), has hitched their wagon to the development of liquified natural gas (LNG), some of it with PetroChina and other foreign corporations.  But much of the northeast LNG fields lie on Aboriginal lands, making access "difficult" fortunately.  Some of the foreign nationals are pulling out, or at least have threatened to because they want the drilling now, not after negotiations with First Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

China has joined the fracking revolution to meet some of its energy needs and to try to decrease their pollution.  I remember images of pollution in Beijing prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics.  The air pollution was so thick that one could cut it with a knife.  So now China is fracking to feed the economy and deal with pollution.  Not surprisingly, the Chinese are running into the same problems as everywhere else, problems that threaten its very survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

From <\/span>Mother Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n