The Forward recently published a most disturbing piece about Jewish summer camps signing on to allow fracking (hydraulic fracturing) on their land.
Regardless of your view of the future of natural gas extraction, the current technology creates enormous and inequitable problems. And the exemptions that oil companies are extracting from governments are most distressing.
We should make our camp owners and directors aware that many of us are not willing to send our children to sites where the water and air is contaminated by fracking techniques.
Nor do we want to give our money to Jewish enterprises that endorse what is at present a reckless and destructive and inequitable energy effort.
We are now beginning to explore efforts to approach camp owners and talk with them about fracking. If you want to help us, please let me know.
I think you are talking well outside your level of knowledge & expertise. I've looked at both sides, have an engineering degree and believe that the problems of fracking are neither enormous nor inequitable.
ReplyDeleteYour last link (Yale 360) gives a much more balanced approach than your post or the first article you link too. The pro-fracking folks seem more credible and knowledgeable about the technology than the anti-fracking ones (who who seem to have non-engineering backgrounds like a lawyer and a professor of ecology).
And Joe Nocera of the NYT disagrees with you too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16nocera.html?_r=1
See what Scientific American reports and the Department of Energy's Energy Advisory Board says. They have credentials you should trust.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=government-fracking-panel&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20110811.