{"id":1363,"date":"2012-05-11T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-05-11T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:05:15","slug":"hydro-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"hydro-fracking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> carried an op-ed piece today on the questionable practice of &#8220;hydro-fracking&#8221; to extract natural gas.\u00a0 Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed new rules for drilling for natural gas on federal and Indian lands.\u00a0 The new rules are more stringent.\u00a0 Hydro-fracking, basically, is toxic chemical-laden water pumped into the ground at high pressure to force the natural gas out.\u00a0 There&#8217;s concern about contaminating the air, underground aquifers, etc.\u00a0 Some 3,400 wells are drilled on federal lands alone every year.\u00a0 Now, common sense says, for one:\u00a0 There&#8217;s going to be accidents.\u00a0 Ibid.:\u00a0 Chernobyl, Fukishima, Deep Water Horizon&#8230;\u00a0 We continue to move along at a breakneck pace on all this (nuclear, oil, natural gas&#8230;), but what kind of world are we leaving the next generation?\u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 During a talk at the University of Notre Dame, I said our administration would place a tremendous premium on promoting: &#8220;good environmental stewardship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times carried an op-ed piece today on the questionable practice of &#8220;hydro-fracking&#8221; to extract natural gas.\u00a0 Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed new rules for drilling for natural gas on federal and Indian lands.\u00a0 The new <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1363\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}