Democratic National Committee Rejects Fracking Ban on Party Platform
Monday June 27, 2016
Ban fracking activist groups suffered yet another defeat with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rejecting their push to include a fracking ban as part of the party’s platform.
The move was championed by activists with ties to the Keep it in the Ground (KIITG) movement such as 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, who was actually appointed to the DNC Platform Committee by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, in an attempt to push the national party to adopt their extreme stance on energy development. As the Daily Caller reports:
“Bill McKibben, the co-founder of the environmental group 350.org, proposed having the DNC’s platform include for a moratorium on fracking, but the drafting committee spiked both proposals by a vote of seven to six. When it became clear that the platform change would fail, environmentalist in the audience began yelling “shame on you” and “shame” at the committee members.
Of course, this rejection is not surprising because, as EID has pointed out many times, many of our nation’s leading Democrats not only support fracking, but extol the process as the “very best and safest extraction technique.” As Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper writes in his recent memoir,
“Based on experience and science, I recognized that fracking was one of our very best and safest extraction techniques. Fracking is good for the country’s energy supply, our national security, our eco...