<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for House energy bill includes oil-shale provisions that alarm conservation groups]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by EarthlingAngst http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:49:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/1 Oil shale worst part of bill

Allowing oil shale exploration in western states is even worse than expanding off-shore drilling. It's the filthiest way to get oil -- polluting land, air and water, causing more greenhouse gases and using up huge amounts of fresh water. Off-shore expansion, in this bill, may not make much difference because it doesn't share royalties with the states so they won't have an incentive to OK it.

EarthlingAngst

]]> Oil shale worst part of bill

Allowing oil shale exploration in western states is even worse than expanding off-shore drilling. It's the filthiest way to get oil -- polluting land, air and water, causing more greenhouse gases and using up huge amounts of fresh water. Off-shore expansion, in this bill, may not make much difference because it doesn't share royalties with the states so they won't have an incentive to OK it.

EarthlingAngst

]]> Comment #2 by Spence http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:01:52 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/2 A Monkey Wrench Gang Nightmare

The thought of ripping up the Green River watershed in a desperate  junkie's attempt to scratch the last bit of oil from the land is hideous. This is potentially way, way worse then offshore drilling. To turn one of the most beautiful places on the planet into the new Alberta tar sands would be a crime of epic proportions. A junkie will destroy anything to get his drug. We need rehab, now.

]]> A Monkey Wrench Gang Nightmare

The thought of ripping up the Green River watershed in a desperate  junkie's attempt to scratch the last bit of oil from the land is hideous. This is potentially way, way worse then offshore drilling. To turn one of the most beautiful places on the planet into the new Alberta tar sands would be a crime of epic proportions. A junkie will destroy anything to get his drug. We need rehab, now.

]]> Comment #3 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:12:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/3 No worries

Like all other forms of mystical alchemy oil shale isn't a threat because anybody who tries it works themselves into exhaustion while yielding little or nothing. Only in childrens stories does straw spin into gold.

Short of pure investment guarantees by the government oil shale will never get funding. It simply cannot make good on it's promies.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> No worries

Like all other forms of mystical alchemy oil shale isn't a threat because anybody who tries it works themselves into exhaustion while yielding little or nothing. Only in childrens stories does straw spin into gold.

Short of pure investment guarantees by the government oil shale will never get funding. It simply cannot make good on it's promies.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Comment #4 by wreckenhavoc http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:13:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/this-too-shale-pass/4 Spence is right.

Aren't we forgetting something here?  Aren't there tiny little critters that live in that shale? Like crickets and such?  We don't want to disturb them do we?  Not for oil.  Don't we want to pass our tar sands on to the next generation? My good friend Spence said it first "Hideous"  but I'm gonna say it too; hideous!

And Spence, I've already been in rehab twice, all a fella can do is keep working at it, one day at a time.

]]> Spence is right.

Aren't we forgetting something here?  Aren't there tiny little critters that live in that shale? Like crickets and such?  We don't want to disturb them do we?  Not for oil.  Don't we want to pass our tar sands on to the next generation? My good friend Spence said it first "Hideous"  but I'm gonna say it too; hideous!

And Spence, I've already been in rehab twice, all a fella can do is keep working at it, one day at a time.

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