Josh Fox was promoting HBO's Gasland II this morning on Morning Joe. Josh Fox did a good job of giving an overview of the issue concerning fracking. It got a little contentious around the 4:45 minute mark when Steve Rattner made the mistaken assertion that environmentalists are a one issue group and said that environmentalists cared mostly about the Keystone pipeline and that the anti-fracking movement doesn't have the same oomph as the anti-keystone pipeline group.
Rattner is an economist, so I guess he can be forgiven for thinking of environmental causes as a zero sum game; but maybe not. Is he saying it's impossible to be against two environmental threats at the same time? To be charitable, maybe I should put it in economic terms. Is he saying that you can't be against both mortgage fraud and unregulated derivative trading at the same time? Probably not. So, why he thinks fracking is on the environmentalist back burner is a head scratcher to me. I see news about fracking a couple times a week. It's not a back burner issue to those of us who like potable water.
Here's the clip where Josh Fox talks about Gasland II. Steve Rattner tries to rain on the parade around 4:45.