{"id":231226,"date":"2016-03-13T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T01:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fracking-becomes-an-issue-in-presidential-primaries\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T01:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T01:32:48","slug":"fracking-becomes-an-issue-in-presidential-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fracking-becomes-an-issue-in-presidential-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Becomes an Issue in Presidential Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"145.11639676113\">\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 640px; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/images\/images_2016_03\/2016_0311fracking1.jpg\" alt=\"Blog image credit: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at campaign rally in New Orleans. (Photo: Julie Dermansky)\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: auto;\" width=\"640\"\/><span style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 3px; display: block;\">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at campaign rally in New Orleans. (Photo: Julie Dermansky)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made their positions on fracking clear last weekend. Trump is all for it. Clinton too, but only if a list of conditions met. Sanders is against it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump brought up fracking on Friday at a New Orleans campaign rally. &#8220;New York has been let down, they didn&#8217;t allow them to frack,&#8221; Trump said.\u00a0 &#8220;If they fracked in New York, New York would lower its taxes, would have no debt, would have made a fortune. Instead Pennsylvania took all their money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Praising Pennsylvania, Trump said, &#8220;They took those beautiful, beautiful natural resources. They took &#8217;em out.&#8221; He failed to mention hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/08\/21\/pennsylvania-family-dealing-water-contamination-linked-fracking-industry\" target=\"_blank\">reports of water contaminated<\/a>\u00a0by the Pennsylvania fracking industry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bAyfFY4MJHw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His assessment was also out of step with Louisiana&#8217;s economic reality. While Louisiana&#8217;s fracking industry boomed for years before the recent downturn, the state is currently facing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/story\/31386892\/la-budget-deficit-doubles-overnight-gov-edwards-pressures-state-legislators\" target=\"_blank\">budget shortfall<\/a>\u00a0that is close to a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed he can win in New York. Upstate New Yorkers &#8212; deprived of exploiting the natural gas under their land due to the state&#8217;s fracking ban &#8212; love him. But New York&#8217;s fracking ban was passed as a result of popular support. His position is unlikely to gain him many votes.<\/p>\n<p>And it probably failed to win him many votes in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana either, where there is an ongoing battle to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/louisianarecord.com\/stories\/510657377-abita-springs-loses-battle-to-revoke-fracking-permit-from-helis-oil-gas-company\" target=\"_blank\">stop fracking before it starts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, during the Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, the first question on fracking in any of the debates to date was raised. A member of the audience asked Clinton, &#8220;Do you support fracking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton listed four conditions that must be met before she can support fracking. &#8220;I don&#8217;t support it when any locality or any state is against it, number one. I don&#8217;t support it when the release of methane or contamination of water is present. I don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/35180-fracking-becomes-an-issue-in-presidential-primaries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at campaign rally in New Orleans. (Photo: Julie Dermansky) Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made their positions on fracking clear last weekend. Trump is all for it. Clinton too, but only if a list of conditions met. Sanders is against it. 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