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I expect the reason you can't find a lot about fracking that is pro is that this info is proprietary. Maybe best to keep a low profile if you are fracking too. It really depends on what is used to frack the rock, water and ceramic beads don't do any harm, some minerals that make the water denser might sound scary to the earth mother crowd but really aren't a problem. Arguing with these people is pointless. They hate anyone who is sticking it to mother earth. I expect lawyers put out this stuff trying to get a class action suit set up if there is a higher than expected cancer rate, more redheaded babies, or any other phenomena in an area close to a fraced seam.

>> Maybe best to keep a low profile if you are fracking too.

We don’t seem to have so much problem with it here in Texas.

Landowners welcome those rework caravans. Fracking => more royalties.

If the easterners don’t want it, fine — let ‘em shiver in the dark! ;-)

So, the best thing to do is what exactly? I’m hearing defeatism, mostly, and not a lot of direction to good information in support of fracking.

We live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, not a lot of fracking here. A poster was put up in our building by a lib neighbor. She has a weekend place in Bershire County MA, we have one nearby in Columbia County NY. Fracking is a pretty big deal upstate. New York State - the entire country, actually - needs the benefits that NG fracking could provide, the last thing the upstate economy needs is to be crippled even more by City libtards.

It seems to me that if free markets had any say NG would be the #1 energy source of the USA. Domestic, abundant, clean, cheap - how good is that? But how do we get to that if we keep ceding ground, this time in the fracking debate? They lie, and we don’t call them out?

I feel like we lose a lot of debates to the libs for the wrong reasons - they know they have to work harder, and be more deceptive, because they know they’re wrong. On the other hand we just hope the facts will win on their own.

Its not what is used to frack the rock that is the problem as much as capturing and cleaning once the rock is fracked.. natural gas is not the only chemical that winds up released when you use this process.. all sorts of other heavy metals and nasties get released too and must be properly handled.