Activists who have participated in the debate have all seen the argument of supporters devolve into one of money, so this is no surprise. We see it like this: "In the growing bedroom community of Erie, between Denver and Boulder, concerned parents formed Erie Rising in late 2011 after fracking began just a few hundred feet from two elementary schools. Several families claim the activity has increased cases of asthma, migraines, rashes and nosebleeds. Although the link between illness and fracking is elusive, a federal study has found that the town’s air quality, including levels of propane, butane and volatile organic compounds from oil and gas drilling, is as much as 10 times worse than that of notoriously polluted Pasadena, Calif. In response, town trustees passed an emergency six-month drilling moratorium last March, and surrounding Boulder County enacted a yearlong moratorium." And the Phelimites and gasholes see it like this: “We don’t like bans at all,” says Brannon. “If you ban hydraulic fracturing, you ban drilling. We’d lose our mineral development that provides energy we all use, and it would cause us to lose a lot of jobs, and millions of dollars in severance tax payments, royalty payments, and grants that come indirectly through those dollars.”
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:57:34 +0000
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