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I own seven acres in frack-land NY. I haven’t been approached by any gas company, probably because they were just starting to get out to that area when NY put the brakes on.

While I like the idea of fracking, there have been big issues. Roads, streams, ponds - all negatively impacted wherever the fracking takes place. As in destroyed.

There are quite a few families in frack-zones that have had their water sources permanently polluted. Some can actually light the kitchen sink faucet, and it flames up real nice.

Are these nice trade-offs? Well, not if you’ve been assured it could NOT happen. And since the frack companies refuse to admit that the chems and processes used are responsible for the changes, they claim that “it has never been shown or proven” to be a problem.

Since they did not admit any responsibility, they can legally make that claim. And just to be nice, although they have no responsibility, morally or legally to do so, they provide those families with bottled drinking water for the rest of their lives.

I heard the most outrageous nonsense today on the local radio talk show. Some pro-frack guy was strumming the harp strings of happiness and goodwill while mentioning all the wonderful things that fracking will do “for the community”....

Yes, like kids will suddenly have college money. (Maybe-but only the VERY few whose parents own large parcels) (and didn’t get screwed in the early negotiations), and if there are people in need in the community, the gas company (angles began to strum harps again here) would help them all. Yes, this man actually said that if a person down on his luck in the community couldn’t make his CAR PAYMENT, the gas companies would step up and help him out.

I was flat out disgusted listening to the guy. All I could think of was that woman who said she didn’t have to worry about paying her mortgage or putting gas in her car, cause obama was gonna take care of it for her.

Listen, if someone starts running around telling me that busting up the roads, draining streams and ponds dry, destroying generational wells, is all good because they will be paying some losers delinquent car payment, I gotta take a few seconds to think it all over.

Fracking hasn’t been studied in the way that it is presented. What you hear is only the side of the gas companies. I hope they can find some better chems to use, and tighten things up on how they operate, because I would love to see this work out. And I could use the cash!

As it stands now, I’m not a fan. Once these water sources are compromised, they can never be put right. That is my main concern.

Also, they are already talking about raising everyone’s property taxes because a very few people have made out well on the leases. That jackas* on the talk show claimed that the gas companies will come in and split the difference with the community if they see a tax increase -”due to increased property values because of gas leases”.

Sure, if the gas companies would ever admit that the reason was due to gas production, which won’t happen-ever! Shell games.