With northern Ohio (the part of Ohio most immediately affected by fracking's water-depleting effect) now officially in a drought, the question is, who gets the water when there is a water shortage? The people who need drinking water to survive and farmers who need water to grow food for people to consume in order to survive? Or fracking drillers who want the water to get more gas out of the ground and increase profits.
I know this is dreaming, but hey, gas drillers, how about you halt fracking until the drought passes? The needs of human beings should come before the profit-related wants of a business. This is your chance to show an iota of ethics - or to show once and for all a total lack of ethics and to let environmentalists know they are right about your industry.
(Oh, and by the way I'm not saying natural gas drillers are unethical. I'm actually keeping my opinions to myself and simply challenging the frackers to show they do have some ethics. We'll all know the answer by what they do.)
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