Fracking: An anecdote
By way of introduction, I went to dental school with a guy who originally hailed from Long Island who wound up marrying a gal from outside of Williamsport, PA...so far outside Town that it made Williamsport itself look like Midtown Manhattan. Middle of Nowhere where the State Police drive once weekly on the roads, and that's it. Her family owned lots of acres of worthless land including a large valley among three mountains.
So this guy calls me up one night and says, " 'PC', I feel just like Jed Clampett must have. These people showed up at my door and offered me millions for the lease to my land adjacent to my house. All I can hear in my brain is Flatt and Scruggs singing that song."
After all the congratulations I asked him what he's gonna do and he replied, "Whatever I do, I'm sure as shit not going to stay around here. This process is so dangerous that I wouldn't let my old dog or cat near it, much less my family. Everybody who lives near one of these wells has spent time at the doctor or the hospitals for things that they have never seen around here before. They have to go to The Geisinger (medical center) and then to Philly or Pittsburgh. For a lot of these folks, that's the first time they've ever gone to the Big City."
And this was a couple years ago...you can only imagine what's going on now. This guy is also a political conservative - thought Palin was hot stuff, always pooh- poohed environmental/climate change claims, hates welfare except that he made a lot of money doing DPA dentistry For the poor up there. But now he's living the good life down South, playing golf three times a week and going fishing in the ocean. By the way, he "knew" the Gulf spill would've no big deal. One of those guys...but boy, did he get out of the way once the pros showed up to dig on his land. Smart enough to know evil coming right at him. "Too bad" for all the other "suckers", right?
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It shows the ideal community.... Little League games and all.
It makes me sick what those evil frackers are doing to our beautiful commonwealth.
Sounds like your friend struck the mother lode. He reaps all the benefits with none of the risks. 
I wasn't interested in who he is..... I know the "type". 
I just wanted to amplify...