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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fracking but Should Be Afraid to Ask

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The government has devolved from being the guardian of its citizens to being the enabler of energy and other corporate giants.   It seems it really is largely out of the government's sphere to be able to do much, for its people, apart from surveilling them.      

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[1]  Susan Tierney (Unconventional Natural Gas Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges with America's New Energy Resource) was a candidate for Deputy Secretary of Energy under President Obama until in 2009 she withdrew her candidacy.  With a co-anchor she led the Department of Energy Agency Transition Team for six weeks when Obama and Biden began their administration.  To do that she took leave from her place as a managing principal and energy and economics consultant with the Analysis Group, where she had been since 2003.  In the Clinton administration she was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy, and earlier she was appointed to roles in the Massachusetts state government under governors from both parties. 

[2]  "Whose Fault?" by Michael Behar.  Mother Jones, March/April 2013.  

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