Don’t worry, your Vermont Democrats have been hard at work to keep you safe from hydraulic fracturing.
You won’t have to worry about increased traffic from all those jobs. They have protected you from prosperity.
http://vtdigger.org/2011/12/06/fracking-in-vermont-probably-not/
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water deep into the ground.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/vermont-fracking-ban-first_n_1522098.html
That bill passed the legislature, in part because they’re crazy, but also because everyone understood that there isn’t any gas or oil in the state. It’s easy to ban something when you have nothing to lose.