Barry Gardiner Quotes

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

China is the world’s second largest economy, but the enormous costs of its growth are becoming apparent. Residents of its boom cities and a growing number of rural regions question the safety of the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. It is as if they were living in the Chinese equivalent of the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disaster areas. The environmental hazards here are legion, and the consequences might not manifest themselves for years or even decades.

There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

Mercury is a dangerous toxin. It needs to be reduced.

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?

China’s air quality is grim, and the amount of pollution emissions far exceeds the environment’s capacity.

Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.