I tend to be supporting of fracking for natural gas. That I may make a little money from it doesn’t particularly sway me. My Mother’s family has owned a few thousand percent interest in a half a dozen Texas oil/gas wells. Last year her earnings were less than $2,000 although back in the day they were substantial enough to give her grandmother a comfortable retirement. Not bad for an investment that was meant to earn money from rice farming.
I presume that if there is not fracking now there will soon be on our family’s mineral rights land.
On the one hand I think its just fine if Minnesota and Wisconsin allow for the mining of the particular sand that frackers need to inject into the Earth. Natural Gas is far less polluting than the Coal from West Virginia.
And yet on the other hand I know that the deep water reserves under the west and midwest are being sucked out from under the continent at unsustainable levels for agriculture. Now according to this Sully post the farmers of the great plains are finding they can’t compete will frackers.
Oh and I’m almost obligated to mention here that there is one more nail in the coffin of Climate deniers. But if you are one of the eternally undead or a Republican never mind. Its only science.
