Byron Dorgan Defends Fracking For Gas
Although Byron Dorgan is not running for re-election this year, he has nonetheless taken $115,450 from the oil and gas industry as if he was still a contender.
Although Byron Dorgan is not running for re-election this year, he has nonetheless taken $115,450 from the oil and gas industry as if he was still a contender.
The certain knowledge that Senator Byron Dorgan, and other defenders of the oil industry, pretended to have before the Deepwater Horizon crisis began was an illusion. If, even after a month and a half of an uncontrolled oil spill, no one knows how to stop the spill or to contain its impact, it is irresponsible to continue with plans to expand offshore drilling.
Given Chris Dodd’s recent connection to corruption scandals, his retirement won’t be much of a loss for either the Senate Democrats in general, or for progressives in particular.
Dorgan is from North Dakota. Bingaman is from New Mexico. They don’t have anything to fear from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s easy for them, in their landlocked states, to say that coastal states shouldn’t worry about oil slicks resulting from drilling accidents or hurricanes surging up from the Caribbean Sea.
In the 110th Congress of 2007-2008, Byron Dorgan introduced S. 215, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. It would have established “Net Neutrality” by prohibiting internet service providers from delivering some content from some sources more quickly than others. A quick backgrounder on the topic: ISPs have long coveted “premium” levels of document delivery, but the [...]