> ... is another potential protester locking themselves up in front of a fracking plant ... Isn't fracking responsible for a massive drop in coal use though? T

> ... is another potential protester locking themselves up in front of a fracking plant ... Isn't fracking responsible for a massive drop in coal use though? The increased amount of natural gas available means that wholesale prices for it have dropped, which has made coal-powered energy plants increasingly less viable financially compared to natural gas power stations. And natural gas, fracking and all, is far less of an environmental problem than coal is with all its mountain-top removal strip mining and cancerous, radioactive soot.