said. in no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter ground water. now, some companies have spilled chemicals. there is risk. the protesters say, instead of fracking america should use less energy and invest in alternatives. and wind, solar, geo thermal. and algae, there s more energy in algae than any or source. john: no, there isn t. today a renewable energy doesn t provide the world why anywhere near the power we need. if you environmental zealots got your way there would be no progress. oil, natural gas, fuel is dirty. otherwise we re living in the dark ages. i hear the zealotry coming from the other side, john. i don t see zealotry coming in i see statistics uncomfortable
said. in no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter ground water. now, some companies have spilled chemicals. there is risk. the protesters say, instead of fracking america should use less energy and invest in alternatives. and wind, solar, geo thermal. and algae, there s more energy in algae than any or source. john: no, there isn t. today a renewable energy doesn t provide the world why anywhere near the power we need. if you environmental zealots got your way there would be no progress. oil, natural gas, fuel is dirty. otherwise we re living in the dark ages. i hear the zealotry coming from the other side, john. i don t see zealotry coming in i see statistics uncomfortable
said. in no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter ground water. now, some companies have spilled chemicals. there is risk. the protesters say, instead of fracking america should use less energy and invest in alternatives. and wind, solar, geo thermal. and algae, there s more energy in algae than any or source. john: no, there isn t. today a renewable energy doesn t provide the world why anywhere near the power we need. if you environmental zealots got your way there would be no progress. oil, natural gas, fuel is dirty. otherwise we re living in the dark ages. i hear the zealotry coming from the other side, john. i don t see zealotry coming in i see statistics uncomfortable
we re talking about fracking which is an incredibly pitch battle. it s transforming economics in the country and transforming many local landscapes places that are farms or little league fields now sporting wells. there s a rush of capital into natural gas. i think in 2011 i want to say five of the top ten performing stocks were associated with natural gas extraction. it s true. look it up. not the ones that i own. there s lots of fears about what its environmental effects will be, what the health effects will be. we re trying to tease through some of that. we re talking about water contamination and my sense of the literature here is that the ground water contamination through the fracking process itself has been documented in extremely rare cases. but contamination of water because you have all this wastewater, right? i won t call it toxic.
outfront tonight, crackdown in china. just as a breakthrough appears possible in the case of blind activist chen guangcheng, the chinese government clamping down, perhaps harder than ever on other voice of descent. communists parties authoritarian rule. we spoke to several on the inside today. the organization human rights in china told us they haven t heard anything from activist and chen confidant zeng chengdang for days. latest tweet two days ago when she announced she was under house arrest. human rights lawyer was also reportedly detained and beaten. he tried to visit chen in the hospital thursday evening. then there s this woman also known by her english name pearl pup see her there. she s the woman we told you about that helped chen escape his house arrest in the dead of night. she was detained herself. we are told by human rights groups she was released yesterday. take a look at this man. an unnamed supporter of chen s who actually would not allow cnn to identify hi