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I feel like it's really common for people involved in energy extraction to tell the people living in a community "we promise it will all be fine". And then sudd

I feel like it's really common for people involved in energy extraction to tell the people living in a community "we promise it will all be fine". And then suddenly when things aren't fine, they'll pay the absolute legally enforced minimum (usually nothing) to those in the communities they've crippled. People are right to be afraid, giving money to a few well owners in exchange for your entire water table potentially getting destroyed is a bad deal

ggm 4y ago
Yes. It's an exceptionally bad deal. Especially when you consider fugitive gas release from gas extraction is a huge, under-reported problem. All this does is contribute to wild, uncontained methane release. But fracking for heat, I think may still be worth arguing for, and discussing as risk issue. It's not unlike cancer treatments: anti cancer drugs are wildly toxic, and you would never, ever give them to a patient otherwise. None the less, until the newer anti-cancer vaccines came along, they were the gold standard for treatment: Arguing for testing demanded doctors justify giving people toxins. Was it worth it? Yes.