No hard evidence of damage from fracking has been found, even by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents of Pennsylvania and Ohio continue to buy local produce without ill-effects.
In an analysis of data from Pennsylvania, counties with hydrofractured gas wells have performed better in terms of income growth and employment than those which have no wells. The more wells a county contains, the better it performed. The study is available here.
2 posted on 06/04/2013 7:02:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The obvious answer for NY Staters is to move somewhere that has a reasonable economy. I remember back in the early 80s Buffalo had dirt cheap house prices because the job market was in a continuous decline.
7 posted on 06/04/2013 7:21:58 AM PDT by nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)