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THE FRACKING AFF

C1- Inherency

Hydraulic Fracturing is the main type of fracturing used by gas companies in the US

Goldman 11

Goldman, Michael. "Drilling into Hydraulic Fracturing and Shale Gas Development: A Texas Environmental Perspective" ALI-ABA October 18, 2011. 

Hydraulic fracturing is used by gas producers to stimulate wells and recover natural gas from
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about potential impacts on drinking water resources, public health, and the environment

Regulators need to promote alternative forms of fracking to offset costs and wastes

Rozell 12

Rozell, Daniel J. and Reaven, Sheldon J. "Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas Extraction from the Marcellus Shale" Risk Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2012. 

Regulators have recently moved to control the surface disposal of hydraulic fracturing wastewater more stringently
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CO2,(67) and even liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).(68)

Creates massive delays for conventional fracking.

Platts 12 Proposed BLM fracking rule has no scientific basis: IECA Houston (Platts)—18Jun2012 http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/NaturalGas/6394906
Cicio told Platts that he worried that the imposition of additional regulations on the production
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states have voiced their objections to the proposed new federal regulation of fracking.

Plan Text: The United States federal government should exempt Carbon Dioxide Fracturing from restrictions promulgated under Regulation Identifier Number 1004-AE26.

Advantage 1- Hydraulic Fracking

Hydraulic fracking pollutes groundwater and destroy the ecosystem

Bishop 11 ("Chemical and Biological Risk Assessment for Natural Gas Extraction in New York" Ronald E. Bishop, Ph.D., CHO Chemistry %26 Biochemistry Department State University of New York, College at Oneonta March 28, 2011, http://www.sustainableotsego.org/Risk%20Assessment%20Natural%20Gas%20Extraction-1.htm)

Over the last decade, operators in the natural gas industry have developed highly sophisticated
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the objective is to evaluate risk related to the industry as a whole.

This kills the ecosystem through methane leaks and groundwater contamination

Bishop 11 ("Chemical and Biological Risk Assessment for Natural Gas Extraction in New York" Ronald E. Bishop, Ph.D., CHO Chemistry %26 Biochemistry Department State University of New York, College at Oneonta March 28, 2011, http://www.sustainableotsego.org/Risk%20Assessment%20Natural%20Gas%20Extraction-1.htm)

As stated above, the working hypothesis for this risk assessment is that future impacts
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GWPC maintains lower standards for public safety and health than these other evaluators.

Ecosystem decline and species loss risk extinction

Warner 94 (Paul Warner, American University, Dept of International Politics and Foreign Policy, August, Politics and Life Sciences, 1994, p 177)

Massive extinction of species is dangerous, then, because one cannot predict which species
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is like playing Russian roulette, with our collective future as the stakes.

Advantage 2- Economy

Scenario 1 is competitveness

Natural gas boosts industry and competitiveness—key to the econ

Jasinowski 12
 (Jerry, National Association of Manufacturers president for 14 years, "Natural Gas — True Game Changer," Huffington Post, 4-18-12, www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-jasinowski/natural-gas-true-game-cha_b_1433933.html?utm_source=feedburner%26utm_medium=feed%26utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FBusiness+%28Business+on+The+Huffington+Post%29, accessed 5-28-12, mss)

The precipitous decline of natural gas prices — to less than %242 per 1
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gas in our country will boost economic growth for many years to come.

US crisis tanks the global economy

RAHMAN ’11 - former Ambassador and Chairman of the Centre for Foreign Affairs Studies. (Ashfaqur . "Another global recession?". August 21. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=199461)

Several developments, especially in Europe and the US, fan this fear. First
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we may be in a new double dip or W-shaped recession. 

Economic collapse causes nuclear war

Merlini 11
~Cesare Merlini, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and
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World?’, Survival, 53:2, 117 – 130~
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of
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theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.

Scenario 2 is the US Dollar

Natural gas development lets the U.S. close the trade deficit and strengthen the dollar

Holland 12
 ~Kelley Holland, Currency Blogger at CNBC, "How Natural Gas Helps the Dollar", Money in Motion, CNBC, 4-4-2012, http://www.cnbc.com/id/46955130-http://www.cnbc.com/id/46955130~~
The dollar stands to gain from exports of petroleum products, these strategists say.
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be part of a broader improvement in the fundamental backdrop for the USD."

Strong U.S. dollar is critical to U.S. growth

Drabier 11
~John, visiting professor of finance, Strong dollar is good for the U.S. economy, San Antonio Business Journal, 12-23-2011, http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/print-edition/2011/12/23/strong-dollar-is-good-for-the-us.html?page=all~~**
Strange as it may seem, conventional economics 101 may not currently work for the
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new U.S. jobs if the regulatory environment uncertainty is reduced.
Second, since its arrival, the Euro has served as an alternative to the
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. Reduced input prices lead to increased output demand, jobs and income.

Advantage 3- Warming

Warming is real and anthropogenic - Prefer scientific consensus to their hack deniers

Lewandowsky and Ashley ’11 (Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Studies at the University of Western Australia, and Michael Ashley, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of New South Wales, June 24, 2011, "The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change," http://goo.gl/u3nOC)

But despite these complexities, some aspects of climate science are thoroughly settled. We
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the 19th century, pre-dating even Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria.

Renewables key to solve warming long-term but bridge tech is key in the interim

Nordhaus and Shellenberger ’12 (Ted Nordhaus, energy analyst and chairman of the Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberger, energy analyst, author and president of the Breakthrough Institute, February 27, 2012, "Beyond Cap and Trade, A New Path to Clean Energy," Yale Environment 360, http://goo.gl/dtQf4)

A funny thing happened while environmentalists were trying and failing to cap carbon emissions in
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fossil fuels. There simply is no substitute for making clean energy cheap. 

Fracking solves- Low gas prices spur the transition to natural gas

Worstall ’12 (Tim Worstall, Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London, May 5, 2012, "Why Shale Gas is Closing Coal Plants: So Why Do the Hippies Hate Shale?," Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/05/why-shale-gas-is-closing-coal-plants-so-why-do-the-hippies-hate-shale/)

The shale gas revolution is doing a lot more than just making renewables seem more
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losses in both cases but gas seems to have lower such as well.

CO2 Fracking solves global warming and aids the environment

Rogala 12

ROGALA, Andrzej. KRZYSIEK, Jan. BERNACIAK, Maciej. HUPKA, Jan. "NON-AQUEOUS FRACTURING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SHALE GAS RECOVERY" Physicochemical Problems
of Mineral Processing July 27, 2012. 

Fracturing with carbon dioxide is a method patented in the early 80’s (Bullen and
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the former Soviet Union in late eighties (Luk and Grisdale, 1994).

US environmental leadership is key to creating global action

Ivanova and Esty, 2008

Maria Ivanova, PhD,  Assistant Professor at McCormack Graduate School, Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project and Daniel C. Esty, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale Law School "Reclaiming U.S. Leadership in Global Environmental Governance", Summer-Fall 2008, SAIS Review vol. XXVII no. 2, accessed July 5, 2012 from http://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/centers_institutes/center_governance_sustain/Ivanova-Esty-SAISReview-2008.pdf-http://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/centers_institutes/center_governance_sustain/Ivanova-Esty-SAISReview-2008.pdf 

We contend, moreover, that not only is U.S. participation critical
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impact is significant."4 Little progress is made without the United States. 

Worst-case warming results in extinction

Ahmed 2010 (Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, "Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises," Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)
Perhaps the most notorious indicator is anthropogenic global warmings warming. The landmark 2007 Fourth
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– a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.~xi~

No adaption to worst case, extinction is inevitable

Tickell 8 (Oliver, Environmental Researcher, The Guardian, August 11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, JMB, accessed 6-23-11)
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth 

Increased CO2 causes ocean acidification

Venkataramanan and smitha ’11(Department of Economics, D.G. Vaishnav College, Chennai, India Indian Journal of Science "Causes and effects of global warming p.226-229 March 2011 http://www.indjst.org/archive/vol.4.issue.3/mar11-pages159-265.pdf-http://www.indjst.org/archive/vol.4.issue.3/mar11-pages159-265.pdf)
Causes of global warming: The buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mainly
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As carbon sinks fail, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere climbs%21

Ocean acidification will cause extinction

Romm 2012 (Joe Romm, Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, March 2, 2012, "Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity’s Ability to Feed Itself," http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/02/436193/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanity-ability-to-feed-itself/)
The world’s oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they
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seafood" are poised to expand and "remain for thousands of years."

Advantage 4- Russia

Higher U.S. gas production solves Russian energy imperialism—gives alternatives to Europe

Baker Institute 11

• • ~James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, "Shale Gas and U.S. National Security", Report ~%2349, 10-2011, http://www.bakerinstitute.org/publications/EF-pub-PolicyReport49.pdf-http://www.bakerinstitute.org/publications/EF-pub-PolicyReport49.pdf~~
    The dramatic lessening of Europe’s dependence on Russian gas will likely have considerable geopolitical implications
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    and other international initiatives that might not have the full support of Russia.

Russian imperialism makes war with the U.S. inevitable

Blank ’7 (Stephen Blank , Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, "Russian Democracy, Revisited" Spring, http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2007/12/blank.php-http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2007/12/blank.php) Bankey
Gvosdev defends his brand of realism as a moral policy based on prudential calculations that
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very well succumb to imperial temptation, at the cost of international catastrophe.

Escalates to global nuclear war

Yesin 2007 (Colonel General Vladimir Senior Vice President of the Russian Academy of the Problems of Security, Defense, and Law. "Will America Fight Russia?;". Defense and Security, No 78. LN  July 2007)
Yesin: Should the Russian-American war begin, it will inevitably deteriorate into the Third World War. The United States is a NATO member and this bloc believes in collective security. In fact, collective security is what it is about.  Vladimirov: This war will inevitably deteriorate into a nuclear conflict. Regardless of what weapons will be used in the first phase.

Solvency

More than 57 million acres of available federal minerals land under the control of the BLM.

NRDC 9/10/12 Letter to Mike Pool Acting Director U.S. Department of the Interior, Director (630) Bureau of Land Management Re: Comments on Proposed Rule on Oil and Gas; Well Stimulation, Including Hydraulic Fracturing, on Federal and State Lands
In addition to public lands that belong to all Americans and Indian lands that must
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mile of potential federal oil and gas leases in these six western states.

Lifting access restrictions on federal lands solves

Griles 3 (Lisa, Deputy Secretary – Department of the Interior, "Energy Production on Federal Lands," Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, 4-30)
Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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of right-of-way permits for both pipelines and electric transmission.

====New BLM regulations on fracking on federal lands will block conventional fracking. ====

Christopher Rockers, 12 CEO of Magna Energy Services, Testimony on "Federal Regulation: Economic job and energy security implications of federal hydraulic fracturing regulation" April 26, 2012 http://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rockerstestimony05.02.12.pdf-http://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rockerstestimony05.02.12.pdf
We support President Obama’s "all of the above" energy strategy disclosed in the
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death knell for oil and gas development on federal lands of the Rockies. 

Bureau of Land Management regulations are critical they are the leader in developing safe gas protocols

Briana Mordick 9/12/12 BLM Proposed Fracking Rules Don’t Go Far Enough to Protect the Environment and Human Health
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bmordick/blm_proposed_fracking_rules_do.html
BLM is the agency responsible for regulating oil and gas development on more than 700
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wildlands, and human health posed by modern oil and gas extraction practices.