Thursday, November 29, 2018

Barack Obama lets one go: "Suddenly America's like the biggest . . . gas, that was me, people"


Whooooooweeeeee, that one smells:








The blocked rule would not have affected most fracking operations in the United States, since it would have applied only to fracking on federal lands. The vast majority of fracking in the United States — almost 90 percent — is done on state and private land and is governed by state and local regulations. The rule was unlikely to have stopped most new fracking on public lands, although oil and gas companies complained that it could have slowed operations by creating burdensome paperwork.