The lucky and the sharp tend to make the most money in life.
Here are some varied comments on the NYT article from all sorts of viewpoints:
community.nytimes.com
These comments I found encouraging:
< >Yes, initially the drillers make a mess, but once the gas is found and flowing, you hardly know they were ever there. Except the improvements to rural, dirt roads.
I will second this. I like it how some naysayers use ridiculous examples such as drilling in Golden Gate Park. I live in a rural area, and speak from experience. I have a gas well on my acreage at the end of one of my fields. It has been there almost 30 years. I have more wildlife than ever before, and aside from some pipes and tanks above ground, which are innocuous, the environment is just fine, the wildlife has greater variety than ever before in the past hundred years, including bears. That's not a result of the gas well, of course, but the drilling and well have not hurt anything. Once the drilling is over and the soil reseeded, it is clean, clean, clean. I suggest some of you armchair city folks who are "experts" on gas wells grab your cameras, take a weekend drive into the country, where most wells are, and talk to those who have lived and continue to live with gas wells here in the continental USA. You might be surprised about some of your assumptions.
— bcmilnov, Rural NY state> |
