If
you want to know just how bad an idea it is for America to ship “fracked” natural gas to overseas markets, travel the 65 miles from the White House to a place called Cove Point in southern Maryland.
There, right on the Chesapeake Bay, the Obama administration wants to give fast-track approval to a $3.8 billion facility (12 times the cost of the NFL Ravens stadium) to liquefy gas from all across Appalachia.
Read more in “A Big Fracking Lie,” a POLITICO Magazine contribution from Bill McKibben of 350.org and Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.