Philadelphia’s Sunoco Refinery Will Process Shale Oil With the Help of Natural Gas

Sharply rising air pollution and resulting health issues, including asthma which is already a huge issue in the Philadelphia area, would result if this project goes through. Nutter should be weighing in on the side of a Marcellus moratorium to protect our health, and fighting for green jobs, in keeping with his values. “The Harmed, the Sickened, the Dead and the Disappeared” documents over 200 cases of contamination, most with health impacts, from shale gas drilling. And air impacts alone from gas processing in PA are causing and will cause well-documented harm: http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2012/06/pennsylvanias_reindustrializat.html 

Shale oil drilling in the Bakken shale is resulting in a boom in serious health problems there: http://www.onearth.org/article/north-dakota-boom-health-problems-fracking

The Arctic sea ice has just melted faster than it ever has in human history; it is hundreds of thousands of miles less than it was in 2007. We cannot and must not “grow” our economy at the expense of climate. We must invest in green jobs on a World War II-scale instead. We need an ETA: an Energy Transition in America. Not escalating extreme fossil fuel extraction.
If NPR is going to report accurately on this topic, perhaps it should stop accepting the big bucks from ANGA, which literally is paying NPR to announce things that are not true. ANGA’s ad on NPR on June 27th said the gas industry is “supporting nearly 3 million jobs across the country.” Hello? Allowing ads like that to air is irresponsible, especially without any accurate reporting to the contrary to tear those numbers apart using real data (for example, industry reports call every new hire a “job” when in fact the same person might have been hired many different times for short-term jobs; and ANGA makes up multipliers which enable them to literally fabricate numbers for “related industries.” Detailed debunking here: http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/numbers-game-marcellus-shale-industry-created-less-than-10000-jobs-in-pa/