I am a manager for an oilfield services company in Pennsylvania, working on the Marcellus/Utica shale.
There is no amount of evidence, fact or logic that will every convince most environmentalists that stimulation is safe and does not contaminate well water.
This is domestic energy, produced by American workers who earn above-average wages ($30K more than PA average). This is clean energy.
Chesapeake Energy just had over $300,000 damage to a tank liner from environmentalists. If there had been fluid in there, it would have been a spill to be blamed on the industry.
Numerous oilfield services trucks have been vandalized by environmentalists. Drivers are reporting multiple attempts at running them off the road by cars swerving at them.
These environmentalists are the racists of the 21st Century. Like those racists of the past, they are blinded by their hatred and see the industry and its workers as sub-human. They have no reluctance to cause injury or death.
See link to thread at post #3 for thread with the National Review article.
BTTT
I don't know what I would do if I caught some enviro wacko damaging my equipment. If I could shoot them. I might.
Just now, first reponders at natural gas compressor site in NE Penn. Springville. Some sort of explosion. Smoke coming from site. Cause of explosion unknown at this time...