On Nov 28 I attended a presentation given at Clinton High School by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, the Dwight C Baum Professor of Engineering and the Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University. Dr Ingraffea is also an expert on the unconventional extraction of shale-gas. His presentation was sponsored by Hydro Relief Web and lots of people attended.
Prior to the presentation tabling was done by the Hydro Relief Web people. This means that they set up long cafeteria tables with information printouts about the dangers of hydrofracking put on them for people to take home. The above photograph was one of those printouts. I have no idea who took the photo or which website it came from. But I thought it was compelling, and highly doubt if the person who took the photo and put it on the web would object to it getting more exposure.
Take a look at it. Just think. The people who put that sign up on their property were desperate. Their land and water was trashed and their local government wouldn't or couldn't help them, so they had to resort to asking God for help, with a sort of Christian version of a Buddhist prayer wheel, reading their prayer to the heavens, over and over again. So, if hydrofracking gets into NY State, is this what upstate New Yorkers are going to have to resort to? Is our clean water going to be exchanged for profit, with our only hope going to be that God will fix what our government let the hydrofracking industry ruin? I hope not.
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