2016 Postmortem
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CLINTON ENTERS THE FRANKLIN SQUARE CAPITAL PARTNERS HEADQUARTERS THROUGH A BACK ENTRANCE. CREDIT: YONG KIM
Last night, Hillary Clinton attended a gala fundraiser in Philadelphia at the headquarters of Franklin Square Capital Partners, a major investor in the fossil-fuel industry, particularly domestic fracking. The controversial fracking industry is particularly powerful in Pennsylvania, which will host the Democratic National Convention this July. Clinton has avoided taking any clear stand on fracking. While she has embraced the Clean Power Plan, which assumes a strong increase in natural-gas power plants, she also supports a much deeper investment in solar electricity than the baseline plan. The pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record, run by David Brock, touts Clintons aggressive pro-fracking record.
http://www.nofrackingway.us/2016/01/31/hillary-clinton-meets-the-frackers/
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Was that clear enough for you?
FRACK YOU TOO, #SHILLARY! (headline)
Meet Washington and Wall Sreets highest profile fracking spokesperson
Numerous grassroots groups have risen to oppose the toxic fracking of Pennsylvania and its labor abuses, including Marcellus Protest, No Fracking Way, Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, Keep Tap Water Safe, Stop Fracking Now, and Stop the Frack Attack.
As reported by the Intercepts Lee Fang, One of Franklin Square Capitals investment funds, the FS Energy & Power Fund the Intercepts Lee Fang reports, is heavily invested in fossil fuel companies, including offshore oil drilling and fracking. The company cautions that changes to laws and increased regulation or restrictions on the use of hydraulic fracturing may adversely impact the funds performance.
Through its fund, Franklin Square invests in private fracking and oil drilling companies across the nation, as well as Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. This includes heavy investment in Pennsylvania frackers.
Tickets to the event ranged from $1,000 to $27,000. Contributors at the $2,700 level got a photo taken with Clinton, and the $27,000 contributors were afforded the opportunity to meet and hear Jon Bon Jovi perform an acoustic set.
http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2016/01/28/clinton-goes-to-pennsylvania-to-reap-windfall-from-pennsylvania-frackers
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Fracking Chemicals Detected in Pennsylvania Drinking Water
An analysis of drinking water sampled from three homes in Bradford County, Pa., revealed traces of a compound commonly found in Marcellus Shale drilling fluids, according to a study published on Monday.
The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, addresses a longstanding question about potential risks to underground drinking water from the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The authors suggested a chain of events by which the drilling chemical ended up in a homeowners water supply.
This is the first case published with a complete story showing organic compounds attributed to shale gas development found in a homeowners well, said Susan Brantley, one of the studys authors and a geoscientist from Pennsylvania State University.
The industry has long maintained that because fracking occurs thousands of feet below drinking-water aquifers, the drilling chemicals that are injected to break up rocks and release the gas trapped there pose no risk. In this study, the researchers note that the contamination may have stemmed from a lack of integrity in the drill wells and not from the actual fracking process far below. The industry criticized the new study, saying that it provided no proof that the chemical came from a nearby well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/science/earth/fracking-chemicals-detected-in-pennsylvania-drinking-water.html?_r=0
IMO This is just the begining. Reminds me of DuPont........
DuPont Caught Covering Up Deadly Risks of Chemical thats in Nearly Everything & Everyone
Thousands of people have filed lawsuits against DuPont for poisoning them with a chemical that causes birth defects, multiple types of cancer, and death. According to internal DuPont documents and emails, the company knew about the health risks to their employees and local communities but covered up the data in order to increase their profit margin. After decades of dumping this toxic chemical into the ocean, rivers, landfills, and the air, DuPont has contaminated the bloodstream of nearly every American with this non-biodegradable chemical.
In 1946, Teflon was introduced with an essential ingredient known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or C8. For several decades, DuPont and seven other corporations contaminated the U.S. by using C8 in hundreds of products, including Gore-Tex and other waterproof clothing; coatings for eyeglasses and tennis rackets; stain-proof coatings for carpets and furniture; bicycle lubricants; communications cables; fast food wrappers; fire-fighting foam; microwave popcorn bags; pizza boxes, ski wax; non-stick cookware; and satellite components.
According to internal DuPont documents, an employee named R.A. Dickison noted in 1954 receiving an inquiry into the possible toxicity of C8. Seven years later, a group of in-house researchers discovered that C8 was toxic and should be handled with extreme care. However, DuPont decided not to disclose this information to its own employees. Over the years, DuPont scientists have conducted experiments exposing dogs, rats, rabbits, monkeys, and humans to varying doses of C8, which killed many of the lab animals.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/thousands-people-file-lawsuits-dupont-causing-cancer-birth-defects-toxic-chemical/#IetiEjs7Yi6aTWoK.99
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Well we have children in Pennsylvania too, who are exposed to toxic air and water from fracking, you bloody hypocrite!
jillan
(39,451 posts)Kittycat
(10,493 posts)FAIRVIEW, Okla. -
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the Oklahoma late Saturday morning.
At 11:07 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake was centered 17 miles northwest of Fairview
Several aftershocks and smaller earthquakes were recorded in Fairview. Quakes of 3.9, 3.5, 3.1, 3.0, 2.8, 2.7, 2.5 and 2.5 were reported Saturday morning and afternoon.
A 3.7-magnitude quake was reported at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
http://www.koco.com/news/earthquake-rattles-central-oklahoma/37979562|
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)CUT IT OUT
The money is just what they offered
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Well let's hope it works this time....
jfern
(5,204 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)I can't vote for her ever.
TTUBatfan2008
(3,623 posts)"Bernie isn't a real Democrat." The party left him, not the other way around. The party sold out to corporations instead of standing up for the people as it once did a long, long time ago.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)What's happening there with fracking and contaminated water is unconscionable.
Clinton goes to Flint and makes a big deal of that tragedy to benefit herself politically; meanwhile, she's sneaking in back doors to take money from the fracking industry.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)VERY.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)Strange how nobody in the media has mentioned this. Or the fundraiser in Mexico.
And that PAC brags about how she supports fracking?
I hate to sound optimistic but it seems to me that the HRC campaign is doing our work for us.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Not all stiff like she is around us regular folk.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Read the article above bruh.
amborin
(16,631 posts)enough
(13,259 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
99Forever
(14,524 posts)It's how she rolls
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)No Hillary. I cant trust you and would never ever trust you to protect us from the 1% ers.
Broward
(1,976 posts)She should go back to her roots and rejoin the Republican Party.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)like the rest of her shape-shifting positions that's only true if you're willing to ignore her record
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)for all she was worth when SOS.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/10/how-hillary-clintons-state-department-sold-fracking-to-the-world
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)Why the hell are people giving Hillary a pass on shit like this? Seriously, wake the fuck up!