USA’s law to ban banning frac’ing; HR 26 Protecting American Energy Production Act “to prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.” No wonder oil field states are running out of water and or burning up, and Trump wants Canada’s water.

Dear August Pfluger:

American energy production and or companies do not need protection; water, health, communities, fish and wildlife, air and land do.

2012: AEA: Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health arising from hydrocarbons operations involving hydraulic fracturing in Europe:

USEPA (2011a PR) states that “drilling muds are known to contain a wide variety of chemicals that might impact drinking water resources. This concern is not unique to hydraulic fracturing and may be important for oil and gas drilling in general.”

A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing is not recovered, and consequently this water is lost permanently to re-use, which differs from some other water uses in which water can be recovered and processed for re-use.

HR 26 Protecting American Energy Production Act by Rep. August Pfluger, Representative for Texas’s 11th District

Pfluger is the representative for Texas’s 11^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Pfluger is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan 3, 2027. He is 46 years old.

A BILL To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Protecting American Energy Production Act.

Protecting American energy production

(a)

Sense of Congress

It is the sense of Congress that States should maintain primacy for the
regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on
State and private lands.

(b)

Prohibition on declaration of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President may not declare a
moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless such moratorium is
authorized by an Act of Congress.

Jan 3, 2025
119^th Congress (2025–2027)

Status Introduced on Jan 3, 2025

This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 3, 2025. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.

Other activity may have occurred on another bill with identical or similar provisions.

The House Majority Leader indicated on Jan 31, 2025 that this bill may be considered in the week ahead.

Cosponsors 8 Cosponsors (8 Republicans)

Prognosis 3% chance of being enacted (details)

Source Congress.gov

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Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. After the 2020 Presidential Election, President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated in a failed coup to have the election decided by themselves rather than by voters.

Pfluger was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Pfluger voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.

In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also currently facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court, and a federal investigation which terminated because he won re-election alleged that Trump sought to ignore true vote counts, manufactured fraudulent slates of presidential electors, and used the January 6 riot to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election. Trump was impeached but not convicted in 2021 for incitement of insurrection related to the same events. (He was also impeached but not convicted of using the presidency to solicit the help of a foreign government to benefit his reelection in 2019, and he was convicted in state court in 2024 for falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.

Refer also to:

2024: Humans projected to be functionally extinct by 2045 (not from climate chaos): Banning abortion, bribing reluctant women to get pregnant (often), lies by billionaires “cannot overcome the relentless chemical assault on human fertility still in progress and getting worse.”

2024: Alberta 2024 drought at Stage 4/5. Sundre begins planning. What will you do when your community runs out of water? Even frac’ers are stressed: “They’ve got to draw water from somewhere…they’re saying there’s barely any water.”

2024: Huge “common sense” victory! New York Assembly wisely overwhelmingly passes CO2 frac ban, 97-50!

2021: California regulator releases draft rule to ban frac’ing by 2024; For phase out of all “well stimulation” techniques including fracking, acidizing, gravel packing, steam flooding and steam injection. After how many aquifers permanently contaminated?

2021: Oooo la la! Spain bans frac’ing Nationwide

The bill also bans fracking and requires all public institutions to divest any holdings in companies involved in the production, refining, and processing of fossil fuels.

2021: USA must rapidly phase out harmful frac’ing, threat to maternal and public health (and bank accounts of investors everywhere). “The industry’s ability to avoid federal environmental regulation and harm the health of the communities…is alarming.”

2020: Ocasio-Cortez officially introduces bill to ban frac’ing across USA by 2025; prohibit it within 2,500 feet of homes and schools by Feb 2021; provide transition for working families in the industry. “Fracking is destroying our land and our water. It is wreaking havoc on our communities’ health.”

2019: Scared of UK’s frac ban? USA Senator Pat Toomey introduces a bill to ban a president from banning frac’ing.

2019: UK Ban Adds to the Tremors Taking Down the Fracking Industry

2019: UK: Unbelievable! Tory Gov’t bans frac’ing! In Canada, when frac harms ramp up and industry demands deregulation, regulators deregulate. UK decision taken after new scientific study warns it’s not possible to rule out “unacceptable” consequences for those living near frac sites

2017: Republic of Ireland: President Michael Higgins signs bill making fracking illegal!

2017: Ireland “Victory for the long term.” Frac bill passed in Dail! “The scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that permitting fracking in Ireland and Northern Ireland would pose significant threats to the air, water and the health and safety of individuals and communities here.”

28/06/2017. Legislative ban on fracking. Pictured is Siun Keegan – Murphy aged 7 from Leitrim with supporters outside Leinster House in Dublin today. Love Leitrim welcomed the passing of the legislative ban on fracking as it completed the final stage in the Seanad today and will now be sent to the President to be signed into law. Photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

2017: France to ban all new oil and gas exploration in renewable energy drive, ‘Ecological transition’ minister says law will be passed later this year

2017: Republican Maryland governor signs fracking ban into law

2017: Prince Edward Island Bans Frac’ing (First Reading Today)!

The act will prohibit hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” for oil or natural gas exploration or production purposes. It also bans the removal of water from the province, such as the export or sale of bottled water.

2016: New Brunswick extends fracking ban indefinitely & The Environmental Advisory Committee, established by PEI govt to create new Water Act, recommends banning fracking

2015: Another Court Ruling: France will remain frac free

2015: Frac industry pushing France with old lies to sneak in fracing; Promoting extremely dangerous, toxic, financially ruinous gelled “non-flammable” propane fracs as “safe, clean and green” non-fracs!

2014: Quebec’s Premier Declares Province-wide Shale Gas Ban after Environmental Review Board (BAPE) says Fracking Not Worth The Risk, “Too many negative consequences to the environment and society…risks to air and water quality…noise and light pollution”

2014: New York State to ban fracking because of red flags to public health. Health Commissioner Howard Zucker: “Would I let my child play in a school field nearby? After looking at the plethora of reports, my answer would be no.”

2013: France’s Fracking Ban ‘Absolute’ After Court Upholds Law, Frac ban in France is constitutional, Judgement: Schuepbach Energy LLC

2013: Cantabria becomes first region in Spain to ban fracking, PP premier submits bill to prohibit controversial gas-extraction technique

Mayor Saiz explains that the region’s food supply is even more at risk because 80 percent of the economy relies on cattle ranching. “If the water is contaminated, we will suffer irreversible damage; the wells, the noise from the trucks will shatter our peaceful environment,” the mayor said.

“If the trucks come, I will be the first one to throw myself on the highway to stop them,” said Mayor Saiz

2013: French coalbed methane drilling presents risks even without fracking: joint study published by France’s national geological & environmental agencies

2012: 2012 03 06: Jessica Ernst packs hall at Ballroom of Romance

Ernst argues that Ireland should “do a conservative socio-economic assessment of what Ireland stands to lose — in current jobs, industry, your infrastructure, your health. And even the water itself. What is the value of Ireland’s rivers and loughs? Often in these things, we look at the supposed short-term gains, but we don’t look at what we put at risk.”

When asked what she would suggest as a course of action for Ireland on fracking, her message is simple: wait. “The best advice I can give to people in Ireland is that the wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Watch the mistakes happen everywhere else,” she says.

Jessica Ernst in front of Tawnylust, Leitrim Co, Republic of Ireland, passive solar B&B where she was hosted during part of her 2012 speaking tour

2011: European Union report says ban fracking

“To use fresh water for hydraulic fracturing — pour toxins into that water…put it into permanent storage — taking it out of the water’s cycle. How’s that sustainable?”