Thanks for publishing the piece about anti-fracking activist Sharon Wilson of Earthworks from Denton, Texas, as she alerted Deep South Texas to air quality issues.
Ms. Wilson spelled out the dangers (poisons contained in various chemicals ) of oil and gas extraction to the processing steps, and then their use, especially in electrical generation.
A touch of irony; much of the World has condemned the alleged use by North Korea, Russia and Syria of nerve gas – usually a fast death resulting.
However, Ms. Wilson’s warning about the gas and oil emissions, especially methane, usually go unquestioned. Corporate profits to maintain “our way of life;” triumph over health costs.
Alas, so little say we regular citizens have had in fighting the tentacles of the oil and gas octopus, so much easier to listen to the news casts rail about other lands’ poisons.
Wilson, though, feels this perceived powerlessness is changing, even in red areas of Texas.
I hope she is correct for the sake of better breathing, fresh water and eventually sustainable energy.
Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky Brownsville
