"...This comes to mind given the promise of leading Democrats to ban fracking for oil and gas if they are elected president.I assume this plays very well in San Francisco and Manhattan, but it does mean giving the middle finger to the middle of Pennsylvania, among other locations.
What do the locals think about fracking?
We’re told endlessly by environmental propagandists that it is poisoning the local water and air, though a thorough EPA study done during the Obama Administration found little evidence to support this.
A new study of voting results on an anti-fracking ballot initiative in Colorado in 2018 (which was defeated) in Energy Research & Social Science gives us a more fine-grained look at the matter.
The key author of the study, Daniel Raimi of Resources for the Future, offers a plain English summary of the study on Twitter.
His first finding is the most useful:
Key findings: (1) Strong opposition to #fracking is mostly found in places where there is little to no drilling activity.
Strong support for drilling is mostly found in the places that have the largest density of wells. . . most people who live in the “patch” do want #fracking in their back yard..."
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