6/11/2023 0 Comments Rachel maddow book on oil![]() ![]() She sets out the controversial side effects of fracking (earthquakes in Oklahoma, a well explosion in Pennsylvania) and illuminates the dependence Putin’s Russia has on oil revenue - a dependence that rendered Russia open to Tillerson’s entreaties. and to escape negative consequences caused by that extraction.” Moreover, she argues, the companies buy off, sometimes legally, sometimes not, the governments of the lands where they are extracting their resource riches. In these pages, Maddow offers a primer on the oil and gas industry, arguing that resource companies are “incentivized to push as far as they can on extraction. ‘’What could you, in Congress, possibly know about oil that Rex Tillerson doesn’t? How could you, with your lily-livered environmental worry beads, think to weigh in on what could go wrong when pumping oil up from 5,000 feet of one of the richest fisheries on earth?” What is more, they operate with the legal impunity that comes with public ignorance. ![]()
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