This interview with Gasland director Josh Fox from Varney & Co. on Fox Business starts off much like any other normal Fox News-type interview. There’s some bit of information at the beginning involving the EPA and the safety of fracking, Josh Fox starts to talk at host Stuart Varney a bit, and Varney throws it back in typical baiting fashion. It’s not the best, but it is what you come to expect from the network.
Then Varney brings up his property in New York, saying that you could light the tap water on fire long before any fracking took place in the area. This causes Fox to call Varney a liar and causes Varney to immediately end the interview.
The exchange stems from another Varney segment on fracking from last week with Sandra Steingraber. Back then, Varney was apparently all for fracking in New York and said we should get the resources available to us, a different story from the interview above. The prior report also raised more questions about the EPA memo at the center of this interview:
“What they say is it’s not yet widespread and systematic … the operative word here is ‘not yet,’” ecologist and anti-fracking activist Sandra Steingraber told FBN’s Stuart Varney.
Steingraber said the EPA study found multiple examples of water contaminated by fracking during “routine operations” in well-casing failures, which allowed fracking fluids to travel through unseen cracks and infiltrate into nearby drinking water.
Last December, New York state declared a ban on fracking after a report found “significant uncertainties” about the oil and gas extraction technique.
It’d be easy to say typical Fox News, but this is just all a little disheartening. Most people Some random folks have seen Gasland by this point and nothing about the fracking industry screams, “we’re great.” Maybe their bank accounts, but I don’t know.
(Via Fox News)
