{"id":237,"date":"2012-12-26T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/fracking-coming-soon-to-a-state-near-you.html"},"modified":"2012-12-26T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:38:15","slug":"fracking-coming-soon-to-a-state-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/fracking-coming-soon-to-a-state-near-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Fracking: coming soon to a state near you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLest you think fracking is something that happens only in faraway\nplaces like\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/12\/frack-human-error.html\">\nAlberta<\/a>\nor Pennsylvania,\nlook at\nthis map of North American shale gas basins,\nextending right through the Appalachians from Pennsylvania through\nWest Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina into Georgia, Alabama,\nand Mississippi.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitaljournal.com\/article\/317334\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c34f4dbbe970b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/img\/2\/3\/4\/1\/5\/i\/1\/0\/3\/o\/north_american_shale_gas_formations.jpg\"   width=\"500\" height=\"368\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 80%;\">\nSource:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitaljournal.com\/article\/317334\">\nCanada fracking creates \u2018test tube&lsquo; residents in B.C., Alberta<\/a>,<br>\nby Lynn Herrmann for Digital Journal 5 January 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHow long before Georgia Power or Southern Company decide natural\ngas would be even cheaper if they fracked in Georgia or Alabama or Mississippi?\nHow long until\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/12\/frack-human-error.html\">\nunavoidable human error<\/a>\nstarts fracking polluting our local groundwater and rivers?\nFor that matter, isn&#8217;t it bad enough already that other people&#8217;s\nwater is fracked for cheap gas in Georgia?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe could just\n<a href=\"\/blog\">\nget on with solar power<\/a>,\nwhich doesn&#8217;t spill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lest you think fracking is something that happens only in faraway places like Alberta or Pennsylvania, look at this map of North American shale gas basins, extending right through the Appalachians from Pennsylvania through West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. 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