Unnatural Gas: How Government Made Fracking Profitable

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4. Thank you this is very interesting and important essay on the subject. Government continues to

coddle this vile industry in many ways. Frackers are exempt from many clean water and clean air regulations. They derail or delay official studies that could be used as evidence against the industry. As usual the profits are all private, while they push the costs off onto the public via health costs, destruction of common spaces like parks and lakes, harm to animals who live around there, municipal infrastructure costs for roads and water pipes to handle the damage caused by the big trucks and shaking earth, stealing our fresh water just as water is becoming more of a scarce resource, economic disruption of communities via skyrocketing rents as foreign workers are being imported to frack sites and renting houses and apartments.

The government is clearly picking winners and losers. And the frackers have been selected as the winners. The people are the losers. Billions of dollars are being invested developing physical infrastructure to advance this vile dirty energy. Every dollar spent toward developing this energy is a theft from the future and an attack on the American people. The government should immediately seize the bank accounts and physical plant of this industry, redirecting 100% of it's profits into conservation, adaptation, and renewable energy.