With red state mentality vs blue state mentality.
The ability of the Big Fracking Forces to go into an area and destroy the environment is due to two separate things:
One: that state and local governing officials simply tell "activists" that they themselves are powerless to stop it - that if something is a "legal activity" then it must go through.
That legal activity can be anything from a 40,000 pig industrialized pig farm, that destroys the air and the water and the land, to the fracking activities.
Two: The destruction of Science as we once knew it:
Science once involved having the most pre-eminent people in a field investigate a situation and determine, through careful modeling, data collection and analysis, whether an activity's benefit to risk situation is such that the benefit is more important than the risk.
Perhaps the last time that this nation experienced such a truly scientific investigation was back in 1998, when Gov Davis (D) of California appointed pre-eminent scientist and researcher John Froines to oversee a Blue Ribbon team of scientists and determine the fate of MTBE. As a result of that team's investigation, the gas additive MTBE was banned, and Californians saw that noxious substance reduced significantly in their gasoline's content, saving our aquifers and drinking water, and our health.
These days, any pre-eminent scientist in their field must have never ever dissed any product that is important to Big Huge Industrialized Corporations such as Big Oil and Energy, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture etc.
So any scientist who has ever hinted at the notion that fracking is not a good idea has already been purged from the Big Oil and Energy's "go to list" of researchers who will be chosen by them to research and "scientifically" determine the possibility of whether fracking is or is not harmful.
It is also important to note that our governmental agencies themselves are merely revolving doors by which industry has their people placed in governmental positions - a good example being what happened before and during the approval process of Aspartame. (Google Aspartame, Donald Rumsfeld, approval of Aspartame to read a compelling story of what goes really on when a substance is "examined" and "investigated" by our agencies.)
About the only way that I see that we can stop fracking is for Democrats, Republicans and Third Party people to all unite and utilize the process that The Community Rights movement is teaching people to take our communities back from the Fascistas now ruling over us.
I have already looked into my "Delphic" crystal ball, and I can tell you with total certainty that Big Corporate Science is going to spend the next fifty years telling us the "proven scientific" fact that many areas' water became undrinkable, its land became barren, its wildlife crippled and dying -- all that is merely coincidendental to the fact that these things happened immediately after fracking began in those areas.
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