This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience while browsing it. By clicking 'Got It' you're accepting these terms.
Most recent
Trending
The best of EcoWatch, right in your inbox. Sign up for our email newsletter!
Appalling Earth Day Video Actually Thanks Fracking For Reducing Carbon Emissions
It would have been hard to miss the reports of earthquakes, explosions, lack of clean air, nosebleeds and more attributed to fracking.
These type of stories have been all over every form of media imaginable in recent years.
But according to Energy In Depth (EID), a campaign launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America, those stories have apparently been drowning out the real story—that fracking is somehow responsible for the drop in carbon dioxide emissions.
Yes, this group actually released a video on Earth Day thanking shale gas and fracking for decreasing emissions. You have to see it—and its out-of-context remarks and data—to believe it:
The Natural Resources Defense Council also found the video to be off-base, tweeting as much Tuesday morning. That led to a back-and-forth between the organizations, in which EID revealed that it didn't understand the concept of fracking sacrificing communities.
This #EarthDay video from @EnergyInDepth is beyond offensive https://t.co/Y5lvBUVMYi
— NRDC Youth (@NRDCYouth) April 22, 2014
Reducing CO2 is offensive? Odd. RT @NRDCYouth: This #EarthDay video from @EnergyInDepth is beyond offensive http://t.co/gGToDj21JV
— Energy In Depth (@EnergyInDepth) April 22, 2014
@EnergyInDepth Didn't say that. Reducing CO2 is key. But connecting #fracking 2 #earthday when communities are being sacrificed is wrong.
— NRDC Youth (@NRDCYouth) April 22, 2014
.@NRDCYouth You claim our video is "offensive," then say communities are being "sacrificed" due to fracking? Fascinating.
— Energy In Depth (@EnergyInDepth) April 22, 2014
The video in question includes commentary and data from the likes of President Barack Obama and the U.S. Energy Information Administration. While both have argued for natural gas, neither has noted fracking as a safe or responsible means of acquiring natural gas, likely because it isn't.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently included pro-fracking arguments in a recent segment, but that was a parody. Sadly, this ill-timed video of gratitude dedicated to fracking was not.
——–
YOU ALSO MIGHT LIKE
New Study Shows Proximity to Fracking Sites Increases Risk of Birth Defects
Film Exposes Harsh Reality of Living Amid North Dakota’s Oil Boom
Ohio Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, Companies Required to Test for Seismic Activity
——–
EcoWatch Daily Newsletter
The New York City public schools will allow their 1.1 million students to skip school for Friday's global climate strike, The New York Times reported Monday.
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
It's been 30 years since Bill McKibben rang the warning bells about the threat of man-made climate change — first in a piece in The New Yorker, and then in his book, The End of Nature.
Thousands of protestors marched in front of Frankfurt's International Motor Show (IAA) on Saturday to show their disgust with the auto industry's role in the climate crisis. The protestors demanded an end to combustion engines and a shift to more environmentally friendly emissions-free vehicles, as Reuters reported.
Trending
By Elizabeth Streit, MS, RDN, LD
Sweet and regular potatoes are both tuberous root vegetables, but they differ in appearance and taste.
They come from separate plant families, offer different nutrients, and affect your blood sugar differently.
By Julia Conley
In addition to devastating effects on bee populations and the pollination needed to feed humans and other species, widely-used pesticides chemically related to nicotine may be deadly to birds and linked to some species' declines, according to a new study.
Trending
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is set to unveil a package of measures on Friday, Sept. 20, to ensure that the country cuts its greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030, compared with the 1990 levels.
California ended its 2019 legislative session Saturday without passing two bills that would have led the nation in tackling plastic pollution, The Mercury News reported.