Fracking Quotes

• Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

  Yoko Ono

  Land, World, Whole

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2013

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• Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

  Ken Salazar

  Natural, Gas, Natural Gas

  "Mark Ruffalo: It’s Time To Move On From Fracking And Fossil Fuels" by Tom Zeller and Annie Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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• You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

  Michael Hudson

  Oil, Water, Choices

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

  Sean Lennon

  Dirty, Water, Tone

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• It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

  Jill Stein

  Climate, Crisis, Solve

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Los Angeles Times Interview, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Air, Sea, America

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Drinking, Native American, Oil

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Im for the fracking. I think its an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.

  Mike DeWine

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Risk, Incredibles

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.

  Michael Brune

  Kids, Wind Farms, Rome

  "The Road Ahead (And Some Bumps Along the Way)" by Michael Brune, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe.

  Ken Salazar

  Safe

  "Ken Salazar, Steven Chu praise fracking as 'safe'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're reading this in New York State or in Japan, fracking is screwing you over.

  Ian Somerhalder

  New York, Reading, Japan

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

  David Suzuki

  Earthquakes, Water, Might

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• I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

  Bernie Sanders

  California, America, Community

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• Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

  Michael Hudson

  Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.

  Russell Brand

  Talking, People, Population

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• Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!

  Lil B

  Ocean, Oil, Knows

  "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cities, Long, Mind

  Source: www.9news.com

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• Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Cowboy, Games, Earthquakes

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• Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Technology, Oil

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Incentives, Damage

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.

  Joan Osborne

  Powerful, Reality, Agreement

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• What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

  Jared Bernstein

  Oil, President, Done

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

  Josh Fox

  Done, Regulation, Situation

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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