Diana DeGette And Jared Polis's Bill To Regulate Fracking Looks Less Likely To Pass

The Durango Herald:

WASHINGTON -- With Republicans gearing up to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives come January, hopes for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing are beginning to dry up.

The practice -- more often known as fracing -- pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into wells at a high pressure. The pressure causes the underground formation to fracture and natural gas to flow.

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Comments

[mediamarv]

01:46 AM on 12/15/2010

Why do Republicans like to crap where they eat?

[pecosdog]

12:28 PM on 12/14/2010

There is only one option left when someone is trying to kill you, as these fracking companies certainly are, and all legislative remedies are exhausted.

[Telemachus]

06:30 PM on 12/14/2010

Be gentle, load rock salt first.

[southingtonian]

04:38 AM on 12/14/2010

just be sure to flick your bic before imbibing.

[Olderandwiser55]

09:52 PM on 12/13/2010

Even Wyoming passed fracking disclosure regs...

[Telemachus]

08:34 PM on 12/13/2010

Yes, he does.

Oh, wait -- I thought you were talking about Fracking Bill Clinton. Sorry.

[MilesToGo]

02:29 PM on 12/13/2010

Just more of the same from a GOP that truly does not have a sense of any costs to ecology from a myriad of industrial processes. The danger here, of course, is that groundwater represented by aquifers holds thirty times more water than whatever exists in lakes and streams. To permit polluting of such a valuable resource is simply grotesque. Our desperation for energy resources combined with the drive for profits by the oil and gas industry is revealing subtle insanity and a subversion of proper & balanced public policy.

[F6TXOB]

12:28 AM on 12/15/2010

I am a strong Conservative, but this is not a party thing. This Fracing is just too wrong. It needs to stop. Some thing are not worth what they seem. Being a Conservative means conserving too. Our land is too important. tr

[dengal]

01:03 PM on 12/13/2010

I hope they get it thru but it sounds like they wont, ;-(

[arttex]

10:52 AM on 12/13/2010

What do you call in when you poison your own water to just make some bucks? I call it genocide.

[Telemachus]

08:35 PM on 12/13/2010

Um, that would be the "magic of the marketplace," Skippy. It's going to make our species disappear.

[arttex]

06:23 PM on 12/14/2010

I know I was making satire brother this is a crying shame but typical of man's short sided thinking especially when money is to be made. Stupidly ignorant for sure!

[eyecon]

10:36 AM on 12/13/2010

More importantly, this bill revokes the "Halliburton Loophole" which nullified the Safe Drinking Water Act. Gee, I am shocked that the GOPers don't like this.