The energy interests promote false hopes of short-term savings and hometown opportunities for good jobs. These don’t materialize, but once the permits are issued and the drilling and fracking happens, the negative effects are long term and permanent. We now know that releasing methane, burning it, or making plastic out of it all do permanent damage. It’s so unnecessary.

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania – Inside Climate News

Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse.

The Climate effects are not only big storms, but more frequent and severe small ones. In fact, the insurance industry reports that non-farm losses due to small storms is greater than the increses in large storm losses. The energy industry takes no responsibility for this, but it’s clearly acts of men, not God, causing this. KEEP IT IN THE GROUND.