While this article on Lawyers, Guns & Money is not about Ohio, it is about the dangers of fracking. It describes the eathquakes that started in Arkansas when fracking started there. The earthquakes subsided when the drilling stopped. Ther article goes on to mention that further exploration of the cause would not be researched because, well, the gas companies have the power to stop it.
The part I found the most interesting - the comments at the end of the article. One poster went as far as to describe the issue behind the fracking controversy as being that people hate energy companies. Really, though, that seems like a very, very short-sighted stance.
The problem, at least for most people and environmental groups, has nothing to do with hating energy companies. It has to do with not wanting to see people die due to a company's greed and political leader's greed over not wanting to lose money and power by standing up against companies doing the wrong thing. That is the bottom line, not hatred of the companies bringing us energy.
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