Lisa Murkowski Quotes

I didn't understand anything about fracking or horizontal drilling until about 2010, when I first learned about the Eagle Ford.

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

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

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.

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

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

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

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.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.

We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

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

We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift away from fossil fuels.

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental.

Do not tell me that we're not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. I mean, I guess there's some - there are a few spots where we're not drilling. We're not drilling in the national mall. We're not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have like, you know, 200 oil rigs in the middle of Chesapeake Bay.

Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.