Dear President Obama Page #2
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- 2016
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to ever come in to office
because look what we gave you."
He's trying to have it
both ways.
You know,
please the oil and gas industry
by producing more oil and gas.
But on the other hand, uh
regulate the coal industry
to reduce emissions.
It's not that simple.
Solutions to our
energy quandary
are available today.
But what is required is a plan.
A vision...a bold leader.
Last year, the world
came together in Paris
and to agree on a plan
to reduce climate
damaging emissions
nation by nation.
Urgency was given
to the gathering
by the common knowledge
that this could be
our last moment to act
to save much of what
we hold most precious
and to pass on a planet
worthy of our children.
[applause]
What was accomplished in Paris
late in 2015, was a good start
but what now?
These are the tar-balls..
As this president shapes
his environmental legacy
and as the next president
prepares to pick up
where he's left off..
..we want to introduce you
to some of those
17 million people
across the country
that have paid a price
for the boom
It is their stories
that will hopefully
inform and hasten
our next moves
toward a clean
energy revolution.
Pennsylvania claims the very
first commercial oil well
in the US, going back
over a hundred years.
More recently,
in the fight over fracking.
Health complaints and evidence
of contaminated water and air
showed up here
soon after the boom began.
The negatives of fracking
are causing many residents
to reconsider the long held
pro-drilling mentality
that once reigned
in the Keystone State.
I don't see any...
problem with drilling.
I mean, I think, I think
probably
when they started drilling
they were not doing it well
and the wells weren't cast
in a great way
and the chemicals
that were going down the wells
probably weren't healthy, and..
I mean, I'm sure
that there were some..
...there were some issues back,
years and years ago but..
...but today, drilling today
and how they do it
very responsible.
[instrumental music]
When the first hydraulic
fracturing operators
came to Pennsylvania
in the mid 2000's
they didn't take out billboards
to announce the new process.
Secrecy is one of
the industry's primary tools.
That secrecy is understandable.
Fracking involves blasting
millions of gallons
of fresh water
mixed with a toxic slurry
of chemicals and sand
to blow apart the shale
and extract the gas
trapped inside.
Every frack is like a bomb
a mile or two
beneath the surface.
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