
{"id":22520,"date":"2011-12-22T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22520"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:31:08","slug":"letter-fracking-too-dangerous-for-n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/12\/22\/letter-fracking-too-dangerous-for-n-c\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Fracking too dangerous for N.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Arthur Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>An Enemy of the People<\/em>, the doctor is the only person interested in the truth, just like most North Carolinians when it comes to fracking, a definite enemy of the people. Fifty-three percent aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t paying attention to the debate over fracking, but they should.<br \/>\nFracking \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a way to harvest natural gas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c may soon be coming to central North Carolina. But we can find safer ways to get alternative energy.<br \/>\nFracking creates pollution, releasing chemicals that can destroy an ecosystem, not to mention the thousands of truck trips required that create air and noise pollution.<br \/>\nDoes it boost the economy? The jobs created don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t last long. Meanwhile, the company makes most of the profit. There are stories of people making millions from fracking. But most make little from the wells they allow on their property. And if you live one lot away from a well, you get all the pollution and none of the profit.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the profit for local businesses may decline due to truck traffic. Some say that businesses make much more money, but to me it seems like the trucks would discourage customers from going to nearby businesses.<br \/>\nGiven this, we need laws prohibiting fracking until it is cleaner and safer. I do not see how this can be done in North Carolina given the current dangers. We do not want our ecosystems ruined like some in Pennsylvania have been \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unless we really want tap water so polluted we can light it on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Baxter Barrett<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Arthur Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s An Enemy of the People, the doctor is the only person interested in the truth, just like most North Carolinians when it comes to fracking, a definite enemy of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22525,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22520\/revisions\/22525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}