Discussions of Fracking Need To Be Fair

Below is a video that does a good job at explaining how fracking works.  It’s all true, but the presentation is imbalanced and unfair, as it doesn’t present how completely screwed we’d be in the absence of fracking, which would mean that almost all that energy content would have been (and would continue to be) supplied by coal.

The piece acknowledges that coal produces more CO2, which is correct, but fails to note the other, more serious forms of damage that coal wreaks on our health and environment: mercury, cadmium, selenium, arsenic, NOx, sulfates, and radioactive isotopes.

Getting rid of coal is an extremely important priority for those of us who understand and care about this stuff, and any issue associated with fracking is a more-than-acceptable trade-off in getting this accomplished.