After the United Kingdom began offering tax breaks for natural gas drillers recently, The Guardian newspaper ran a story on what drilling will be like.
North Texas served as the lab rat.
The resulting report is headlined “Fracking Hell” with a subhead that reads: “Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town. With the chancellor last week announcing tax breaks for drilling companies, could the UK be facing the same fate?”
Hey, they forgot to mention earthquakes. And destroyed roads. And the adverse impact on water supplies. And the shoddy oversight of pipelines. And…well, they’ll figure it all out soon enough.
