Sen. Michael Bennet's not so secret adviser on the environment

hey everyone (4.00 / 1)

I wrote the diary.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

in that diary I criticize both Mark Udall and Michael Bennet for signing onto a letter that asks for natural gas subsidies in the climate bill.

   

Any Senate energy and climate bill should provide statutory guidance to harness this important resource and stimulate and support even more activity in this sector of our nation's diverse energy portfolio," states the letter from Sens. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), David Vitter (R-La.), Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska).

Aligning yourself with Brownback and Murkowski only strengthens one's conservadem resume.
It is not clean energy and it has been doing damage to the people of Colorado, unless you thinking flameable tap water is healhty - courtesy of natural gas drilling.

Now, Ray or others may come here and post that I am 'in the bag' for Romanoff, but I have said before, this primary gives we the voters the opportunity to put pressure on Bennet for wrong direction moves like this one.
If Romanoff is smart he will seize on this opening.
I am glad Bennet's wife has a good track record on environmental issues, its seems that did not ask his wife about this letter before he signed it.

"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
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by: wade norris @ Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 18:04:08 PM CST

while you are here (4.00 / 1)

you might as well sign this petition.

To:  President of the United States and the United Nations

We the undersigned ask President Obama to sign an Executive Order recognizing people displaced by Climate Change as Environmental Refugees and grant these Environmental Refugees asylum in the United States as permitted by Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.

We also ask United Nations Secretary General to call a special session of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees to change the legal status of people displaced by Climate Change from 'Migrants' to 'Refugees' so that these displaced Refugees may seek asylum in other countries around the world.

Sincerely,
the Undersigned

go to this website to sign
http://praer.org/


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by: wade norris @ Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 18:12:14 PM CST

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With regard to the letter (4.00 / 1)

If this is the kind of "bipartisanship" that Udall and Bennet are looking for, they're welcome to it.  Just don't expect the rest of us to climb on the dirty energy posing as clean energy bandwagon.  Coal, oil and gas corporations are spending millions of dollars to convince us that their products really are clean, which is absurd.

I have an idea.  How about getting Murkowski, Specter, Vitter and Brownback to sign onto tougher GHG emission standards?  How about getting them to agree to tougher standards sooner?  How about getting them to sign onto halting all dirty energy subsidies?  Wouldn't that be "bipartisanship" worth bragging about?

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by: WeatherDem @ Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 20:47:39 PM CST

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exactly my thoughts, WD (4.00 / 1)

"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau

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by: wade norris @ Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 21:35:11 PM CST

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Natural gas is clean energy. (1.00 / 1)

Sen. Bennet supports safe measures of extraction.

Your whole point is specious. You knew it when you wrote it.

You lost on dissembling about health care. You are losing on dissembling about clean energy.  

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by: ray springfield @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 01:02:24 AM CST

natural gas is not clean energy (4.00 / 1)

there are burnt emissions from burning natural gas.
you also have to dig to extract it.
there are side contamination issues as pointed in the flammable water video above.

Ray, would you tell the people living in that house that natural gas is clean?
and if so - would you prove it by drinking a glass of their water?


"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau

www.praer.org

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by: wade norris @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 11:24:49 AM CST

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Least worst. (4.00 / 2)

By at least one measure, natural gas is the least worst of the fossil fuels.  That measure is CO2 emissions.

Unfortunately, that's not the whole picture.  Leakage of gas into the atmosphere during production and shipment is a significant source of atmospheric methane, which is roughly 20 times as potent as CO2 as a greenhouse gas.  The climate impact of natural gas is quite a bit larger than merely the CO2 produced when it's burned.

Then there's the polluted groundwater (pdf), flaming tapwater, drilling & mud waste in pits on drill pads, damage to habitat from road building, etc.

So, I wouldn't call it clean energy, though there's much that could be improved, environmentally, in production and transport.  And, it's likely to play an important role in the bridge to a renewables-based energy economy.

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by: by foot @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 13:10:45 PM CST

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Proof that nat gas is harmful and not clean (4.00 / 1)

Pogo has a diary on the rec list that links to a film about the health, environmental and cultural consequences of natural gas drilling in Colorado.  Ray, I suggest you read it and see the film. The destruction of NW Colorado is real. This is far from a clean fuel solution. 

And I also want to lend my voice to becoming bored with you All Bennet All The Time and Bennet can do no wrong meme.

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by: greenchiledem @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 12:32:16 PM CST

Susan Is Quite Impressive (0.00 / 0)

I met her for the first time last night.  She's all you say.

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by: saindenver @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 10:13:05 AM CST