Follow the money, folks!
I live in the Marcellus Shale.
Our school district just cut taxes in half thanks to revenues from hydrocarbon extraction. It is a conservatively run district, so, they didn’t just “spend” the increased revenues....not something you see in the more liberally controlled school districts.
Even liberals have a hard time turning down money like that!
That's why I posted a while back that the CA enviros would be thrown under the bus when it came to fracking - just TOO much money for the Democrats' other spending plans to resist.