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Pressure points; Editorial; Beaver County Times; August 25, 2011.
As you read this editorial, keep in mind the BCT 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. You can read more about this in my critique of “Money talks.”
The editorial concludes with, “Still, if Halliburton is moving in this direction, other companies are, too. They realize that the public’s concerns about the environmental impact of fracking are not going to go away. Reducing the amount of chemicals used in the process would go a long way toward calming those qualms. They would not be doing this if the public had not been applying enormous pressure on them to do so. Keep it up.” This sounds like projection to me. That is, perhaps the BCT does what’s right only with “enormous pressure on them,” so it assumes everyone else must behave the same way. I worked for an evil oil company and a software company. In both cases we were always looking for ways to improve our products. On top of that, we felt harming our customers would not be a good business model. Perhaps that’s not how the BCT operates.
As for “the public’s concerns about … environmental impact,” I haven’t seen any BCT electric/hybrid/hydrogen/CNG cars and trucks running around.
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