Potential fracking in north Georgia was too close,
but what about right here in south Georgia?
Florida has a snowballing anti-fracking movement.
Looks like Georgia needs one, too.
Dan Chapman, AJC Online Athens, 10 March 2013,
Gas drillers turn to Georgia,
Jim Kennedy, the state’s geologist, says another company is
considering the shale gas fields of the Mesozoic Basin that covers
60 percent of the Coastal Plain in South Georgia.
Most of the story is about proposed fracking in north Georgia
that
we noted back in 2013,
plus fossil fuel industry propaganda about how great they say
that would be for the local economy, with very little
about the immense destruction, environmental hazards,
and invasions of private property that would ensue.
The AJC version of that Dan Chapman story didn’t seem to have Continue reading →