BCT Editorial – 8/6/10

On top of things; Editorial; Beaver County Times; August 6, 2010.

It would be easy to take these editorials at face value if you didn’t know the Times history on this topic.  For example, little more than a week ago an editorial misrepresented an accident near a producing gas well.  As I noted in my critique of that editorial, the Times is a believer in the religion of manmade global warming and - though it won’t admit it in so many words - opposes exploration for and production of natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation.  I believe the Times position on Marcellus gas is similar to that by those who claim to support “clean coal,” and then you find their definition of “clean coal” is economically and/or technologically impossible to achieve.

As I’ve written before, companies harvesting our natural resources must do so in a responsible manner and must have the financial and technological wherewithal to handle worst-case scenarios and post-production cleanup.  It is government’s responsibility to enforce these rules and to make sure everyone involved [businesses and government (local, state, federal)] is prepared (via drills, for example) to execute disaster plans.