In North Carolina, the fracked gas industry is working very hard to enact a law making it a felony for anyone to reveal what chemicals are being pumped underground in a fracked well. Here in Vermont, our local gas company has successfully put forward rules where they can decide what information they share and what gets sealed away in our supposedly open and inviting Public Service Board meetings.
It doesn’t matter whether you are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green or anything else — this should bother you. This stinks, and we should not be allowing companies to run pipelines through protected watersheds and under Lake Champlain who behave this way.
Jim Vyhnak
Bristol