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Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal
BACK IN APRIL, just before the New York primary, Hillary Clinton’s campaign aired a commercial on upstate television stations touting her work as secretary of state forcing “China, India, some of the world’s worst polluters” to make “real change.” She promised to “stand firm with New Yorkers opposing fracking, giving communities the right to say ‘no.'”
The television spot, which was not announced and does not appear on the official campaign YouTube page with most of Clinton’s other ads, implied a history of opposition to fracking, here and abroad. But emails obtained by The Intercept from the Department of State reveal new details of behind-the-scenes efforts by Clinton and her close aides to export American-style hydraulic fracturing — the horizontal drilling technique best known as fracking — to countries all over the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 24 2016, @07:53AM
"horizontal drilling technique best known as fracking"
No. Those are two different technologies that happen to often be used together. Horizontal drilling is just that, drilling sideways by carefully steering the drill bit. Fracking is using pressure to crack the rock and then jam grains of sand into the cracks to keep them open.