[Dominique]

I'm sorry I didn't see this thread...I just posted something about there was no earthquake in Pa.

I live in Western Pa. In Pittsburgh to be specific. This is at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Fracking is newer to the area and comes with
controversy. Please know, this is a RED State. The controversy is not so much from Western Pa and North Eastern Ohio, where we were once heavy coal miners. Like it or not, fracking is another form of mining, and for another product. We also mine, in Western Pa. for cement (bet you didn't know that)
That is done in a very similar way to fracking, from the top down....cement mines, leave huge crators in the earth. But because it is not the goal of everyone to destroy the earth, these crators have been turned into eco-ponds/lakes. Now they've renamed them, man made lakes.

Fracking has been going on for about a hundred years. Fracking has brought a tremendous amount of employment and middle person money
to the area's they are fracking in. NOT want the conservatives want you to believe. There has been no evidence to support the allegations of water contamination. The EPA has assigned an OMBUDSMAN to oversee this. I am extremely interested in this Fracking, and also know. I am a self professed tree hugger. I do every thing I can to save the earth.

As I wrote in my other post. The very people of Pennsylvania who are screaming the loudest about fracking, mostly Northern Pa and Central Pa. still heat their homes with oil. Why is that? Why, in 2011 are you using oil
in the State capitol and not natural gas? (the amish and the penna. dutch are still chopping down the trees and burning wood) hardly clean air....but people are jumping on a political bandwagon of unproven accusations about fracking.

Speaking of mining. Coal mining is still regarded as one of the most dangerous industries around, and because of union busting,imported steel,
and the what not...we continue to pick up news papers about collapsed mines (remember the Chilean coal miners ?) I will also remind you, the Oil drilling industry is not without controversy.....I'll NEVER eat a piece of
fish again. I'll never trust that ocean will be safe.....but thats just me. Oil industry is jobs, good jobs with nice benefits. Thats what Fracking is bring
to Penna. and Ohio.

So if you are going to write your congressman, ask they make sure WOMEN are being given equal opportunity at these jobs. So this doesn't become another male dominated industry.

Jagg, I've been listening to world news since I came home from work and talk radio all afternoon, and no one has blamed fracking for an earthquake in Virginia. Can I ask where you heard this? I am surprised, as Fracking has been blamed for some odd things.

Cement mining was blamed for clear coat paint on a 10 year old chevy cavalier for coming off. Just saying.