Hillary has been dragging environmentalists around on a chain, making them believe that she was against fracking, but thanks to a release by WikiLeaks, it has been shown that not only does she favor fracking but she also approves of pipelines. Both of those topics are non-starters for environmental whack jobs. In that private meeting she told the fracking industry that those who don’t believe in fracking should “get a life.”
She also defended rebuilding old pipelines and building new ones when she said she wants “to defend repairing and building the pipelines we need to fuel our economy. I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances.”
Hillary told them that her opponent, Bernie Sanders wanted to leave all fossil fuels in the ground. (Just like her supporters in the Sierra Club)
“So you know Bernie Sanders is getting lots of support from the most radical environmentalists because he’s out there every day bashing the Keystone pipeline, and, you know, I’m not into it for that.”
“Everybody’s not going to get everything they want, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work in a democracy, but everybody needs to listen to each other.”
The campaign also floated the possibility of using environmentalists as attacks dogs against Sanders’ anti-fracking position, including Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat and proponent of regulating fracking.
Clinton’s comments to the union group, as well as those she made in the Oct. 12 email, stand in stark contrast to remarks she made during the March 6 primary debate in Flint, Mich.
“I don’t support it when any locality or any state is against it, No. 1. I don’t support it when the release of methane or contamination of water is present. I don’t support it–No. 3–unless we can require that anybody who fracks has to tell us exactly what chemicals they are using,” she said at the time.
The Democratic nominee added that she does “not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place,” as a result of all the stipulations and regulations she would heap on top of the industry.