From: HuffPost
The Huffington Post
| by
James Gerken
The "Daily Show" ran a segment on hydraulic fracturing
on Thursday night that featured its "correspondent" Asif Mandvi
interviewing people on the controversial oil and gas extraction process
known as "fracking."
Mandvi talked to Marita Noon, a former Christian speaker and the executive director of New Mexico-based Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy, a non-profit lobbying organization that also operates a group called Energy Makes America Great.
"Oil
and gas companies are quite good at self-regulating or self-policing,"
Noon told Mandvi. She said she doesn't really see room for improvement
and argued that oil and gas companies care about the communities where
they operate. "Because the average person doesn't understand fracking,"
she added, "the environmentalists are able to use fear, uncertainty and
doubt to plant ideas into people's minds."
In a prebuttal posted on the conservative news site Townhall
on March 17, Noon thanked the "Daily Show" for letting her speak about
hydraulic fracturing, but said the experience of being interviewed for
the show "felt like three hours of waterboarding."
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