
{"id":22521,"date":"2011-12-22T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22521"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:28:31","slug":"letter-dangers-of-fracking-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/12\/22\/letter-dangers-of-fracking-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Dangers of fracking unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The majority is never right until it does right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Arthur Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prescient words, from his play <em>An Enemy of the People<\/em>, couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be truer than in the issue of fracking. These words are spoken by a doctor who discovers his town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153healing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d springs are contaminated with harmful bacteria that could sicken many people. The town rejects his attempts to publicize the issue because of the effects on the town economy.<br \/>\nNorth Carolina lawmakers are hurrying to legalize fracking. The majority is not doing the right thing in this case, like in Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play. Although the economic benefits of fracking are attractive, the long-term effects on the environment and our health are not known. The EPA recently released a report on how fracking can lead to contaminated groundwater \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who knows what else it might affect? Lawmakers should slow down the bill until we know more about the effects of fracking.<br \/>\nThings do not become ethical or right just because the majority is in favor of it. We need to look into the effects of fracking before moving the fracking laws any further. The short-term economic benefits do not outweigh the long-term damage. <\/p>\n<p>Marichi Gupta<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The majority is never right until it does right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/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-22521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521","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=22521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22523,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions\/22523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}