HIDDEN FRACKING AGENDAS?

Global shale-gas reserves are massive and have the potential to help secure world energy and transport supplies for hundreds of years. The benefits versus the costs are potentially hugely in favour of free and prospering mass-humanity and shale-gas could be fairly described as a timely Godsend. I would therefore advise people to read the plethora of anti shale-gas fracking (Hydraulic fracturing) hit-pieces from the mainstream media and ‘environmental’ groups with extreme caution and carefully study the hidden agenda (see below) to such anti-fracking and beware of predictive programming. As always, what appears to be fact-based journalism and scientific analysis in politically contentious arenas is often skewed for hidden reasons.[1]

Of additional interest is the recent entrance and negative comment of the ‘Russia Today’ media outlet on Western shale-gas extraction: “Confirmed: Fracking caused Ohio earthquakes” - RT, 03 January, 2012[2]. The fuller truth behind all of this is that Russia and certain Western anti-industrial elites and ‘greens’ in some ways now have temporary common-cause on this matter and are proving to be strange bedfellows in this instance. Moreover, the situation in Ohio is not representative of the shale-gas industry generally and the whole subject has been grossly misrepresented in both the West and the East. The economic and strategic renaissance in Russia that is underpinned by gas exports to the West is now seriously threatened given the competition in prospect from new drilling (‘fracking’) techniques that make massive Western shale-gas reserves eminently exploitable. Russia therefore has everything to gain from those in the West who are hell-bent on sabotaging our game-changing shale-gas industry – and such saboteurs have a long pedigree and deep pockets.

Unfortunately, in the West, many so-called ‘greens’, along with certain elites pursuing a ‘new world order’, are intent on rolling back industry and energy production by fair means or foul and are engaged on a massive propaganda push to massively exaggerate the environmental impact of shale-gas fracking: by, for example, falsely attributing natural earth tremors in geological-fault areas to fracking and grossly exaggerating dangers of potential water-table contamination by drilling.

The twin pillars of Neo-Malthusian de-industrialisation advocates in the West are that fossil fuels have allegedly caused catastrophic ‘global warming’ and that ‘peak energy’ shortages mean we cannot afford to maintain living standards or allow third-world countries to escape from grinding poverty. Both of these twin pillars have however been shown to be mythical: Global temperatures failed to rise as predicted over the last decade in spite of continued increases in anthropogenic carbon-dioxide production[3] and global peak-energy scares have likewise now been shown to be equally false and underpinned by pseudo-science[4].

The fact is that the globe is awash with oil and gas reserves. Indeed, energy prices in the West are unnecessarily high because of political factors: e.g. high fuel taxes, poor strategic energy policies pursued by politicians and conversion to ridiculously inefficient and heavily subsidised renewable power generation[5]. Oil companies also have a lot to gain from fears around energy supplies (such as threatened closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf) which enable them to maintain higher prices – as indeed the world witnessed after the 1970s OPEC oil shocks.

Moreover, the associated elite-propagated ‘population bomb’ spectre was also grossly exaggerated. Even mainstream academia now admits that the Malthusian fear of ‘overpopulation’ was and is a myth and that overt and covert global eugenics polices to tackle this non-problem were both unnecessary and barbaric.[6]

Returning to the central subject of shale-gas fracking, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out for example, the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been caught deliberately demonising shale gas production by using deeply flawed and selective evidence and reasoning:

“The EPA’s Fracking Scare… The shale gas boom has been a rare bright spot in the U.S. economy, so much of the country let out a shudder two weeks ago when the Environmental Protection Agency issued a “draft” report that the drilling process of hydraulic fracturing may have contaminated ground water in Pavillion, Wyoming. The good news is that the study is neither definitive nor applicable to the rest of the country… But does it stand up? This is the first major study to have detected linkage between fracking and ground-water pollution, and the EPA draft hasn’t been peer-reviewed by independent scientific analysts. Critics are already picking apart the study, which Wyoming Governor Matt Mead called “scientifically questionable.””[7]

Additionally, a recent detailed report on Shale-Gas and Fracking by Dr Matt Ridley (who is also working to debunk the establishment-funded pseudo-science of anthropogenic global warming) entitled ‘The Shale Gas Shock’[8] states the following:

“…as it became apparent that shale gas was a competitive threat to renewable energy… the green movement has turned against shale.”

And with regard to the most common ‘green’ objection to shale-gas extraction (alleged water-table pollution) the report states:

“But can they even infiltrate groundwater? The aquifers used for well water in states like Pennsylvania lie just a few hundred feet below the surface, whereas the shale gas is several thousand feet below. Seismic studies show that there is approximately one mile of solid rock between the fracking fissures and the aquifer: Even in areas with the largest measured vertical fracture growth, such as the Marcellus, the tops of the hydraulic fractures are still thousands of feet below the deepest aquifers suitable for drinking water…”

The Ridley report goes on:

“The well pipe running down through the aquifer is encased in alternating layers of concrete and steel and is generally triple-encased down to the depth of aquifers… For the well to produce gas it is vital that there are no leaks of either gas or fracking fluids into the aquifer or any other strata, so it is not in the company‘s interest to allow this.”

Indeed, the environmental impact of shale-gas fracking is arguably much less than that of deep coal-mining and, on the subject of chemicals used in fracking, the report states:

“…shale gas companies are now becoming more transparent about the chemicals in fracking fluid. Typically, what goes down the well is 94.62% water, 5.24% sand, 0.05% friction reducer, 0.05% antimicrobial, 0.03% hydrochloric acid and 0.01% scale inhibitor . The actual chemicals are used in many industrial and even domestic applications: polyacrylamide as a friction reducer, bromine, methanol and naphthalene as antimicrobials, hydrochloric acid and ethylene glycol as scale inhibitors, and butanol and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether as surfactants . At high dilution these are unlikely to pose a risk to human health in the event they reach groundwater.”

Shale-gas extraction costs and benefits vary as widely as local geology does and we must not allow the proverbial baby to be thrown out with the bathwater given what’s at stake (e.g. industry grinding to a halt and old people dying of hypothermia in winters). In most cases/locations, shale-gas extraction via drilling/fracking is not a significant threat to water supplies and neither does it significantly increase risks of substantial earth tremors. When viewing all sides of the arguments around shale-gas, and so-called ‘peak-energy’ matters, I would caution readers to bear in mind how so-called scientific papers on alleged global-warming have been corrupted by the globalists’ pseudo-green agenda. An agenda that has used lies and exaggerated or false environmental scares to usher in an anti-democratic and decidedly anti-human global governance or ‘new world order’. I therefore draw your attention to the following elite comments illustrative of a decidedly deadly and largely covert programme, a programme that is very much work in progress[9]:

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” [Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme].

“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.” [Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute].

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” [Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation].

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.” [UN Agenda 21].

“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.” [John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal].

“The alternative to the existing world order can only emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress. We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking.” [Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum].

“The emerging ‘environmentalization’ of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.” [Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum].

“Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.” [Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution].

“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.” [UN Commission on Global Governance report].

“We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change. Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible. We urgently require a global environmental revolution.” [Tony Blair, former British PM].

“Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to ever face mankind.” [Prince Charles].

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…” [David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive member].

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” [Emeritus professor Daniel Botkin].

“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” [Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace].

“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” [Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research].

“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.” [Dr David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University].

“The alternative to the existing world order can only emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress. We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking.” [Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum].

“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” [Club of Rome, elites' environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations].

“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide [from current levels of 700 million], destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” [Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First].

“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man.” [Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point].

“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.” [David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!].

“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.” [Prof Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb].

“I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.” [Prince Philip, preface of Down to Earth].

“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.” [Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind].

“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” [David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club].

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” [Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund].

“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” [John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal].

“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.” [Christopher Manes, Earth First!].

“The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.” [Al Gore, Earth in the Balance].

“It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature. [Maurice Strong, first Secretary General of UNEP].

“The spirit of our planet is stirring! The Consciousness of Goddess Earth is now rising against all odds, in spite of millennia of suppression, repression and oppression inflicted on Her by a hubristic and misguided humanity. …The earth is not dead matter. She is alive. Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk. You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind. Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you. Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth. On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth” [US Student Textbook, “Prayer to the Earth”].

The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism with psychic and spiritual dimensions. With the expansion of the patriarchal religions that focused on a male God majestically stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the Universe, the memory of our planet’s innate Divinity was repressed and banished into the collective unconscious of humanity.” [Envision Earth].

“The spiritual sense of our place in nature… can be traced to the origins of human civilization…. The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.” [Al Gore, Earth in the Balance].

“Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition.” [Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights].

“A total [global] population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” [Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor].

“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. We’ve got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. You know, the bird flu’s good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.” [Dr. Eric Pianka University of Texas, evolutionary ecologist].

In relation to the shale-gas fracking issue, as with much else in the modern body-politic, media and science are subject to powerful corrupting forces and it seems to this researcher that one of the few things you can entirely trust these days is the following statement: some of those elites that are running and reforming our present global ‘asylum’ really are lunatics in every sense of the word. Caveat emptor.

Ron Logan.

January 2012.

REFERENCES:

[1] See the following for an academic view on the misuse of science for political ends: ‘Zombie science: A sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest’. Professor Bruce Charlton. Medical Hypotheses (2008) 71, 327–329. 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2008.05.018:

http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Charlton2008.pdf
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2009/08/zombie-science-of-evidence-based.html

[2] RUSSIA TODAY – “Confirmed: Fracking caused Ohio earthquakes.” Published 03 January, 2012:

http://rt.com/usa/news/fracking-ohio-quake-earth-165/

[3] Anthropogenic Global Warming Propaganda debunked – see:

http://joannenova.com.au/
http://climatedepot.com/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/
http://www.thegwpf.org/

[4] See for example “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World” by Leading Oil Historian Daniel Yergin:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Energy-Security-Remaking-Modern/dp/1846145422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325682851&sr=8-1

[5] See for example:

Greener energy will cost £4,600 each a year:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/8980982/Greener-energy-will-cost-4600-each-a-year.html
£10m cost of turning off wind farms:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/8978458/10m-cost-of-turning-off-wind-farms.html
Solar Millennium files for insolvency:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-solarmillennium-insolvency-idUSTRE7BK11920111221