Excellent journalism and reporting on the "Marcellus," the 2nd largest natural gas source in the world. It's a huge shale formation that runs under Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and into New York. Pennsylvania is the center of it.
In part one of this NPR piece, two university researchers are highlighted and interviewed: 1 did the calculations which determined how much gas exists in the Marcellus, and another discovered how much shit is forced up through the earth from fracking and the horribly dangerous pollution which is created and which is dumped into our rivers. The first guy has been named a "rock star" by his university. The second guy is now unemployed.
The second half examines a small city in Pennsylvania, Mt. Pleasant, which sits at the epicenter of all of this gas. The dirty rotten games the gas company has played with this small town are sickening. Divide and conquer was their strategy, and they succeeded.
If you can find an hour to listen, you won't regret it.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-arch...40/game-changer
