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Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Posted by EcoWatch: Ellen Cantarow on January 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity--its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet?
When I interviewed Dr. Anthony Ingraffea--Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University and president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc., I realized that his comments were perhaps the clearest, most compactly...
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Frack Fight—This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Posted by EcoWatch: Ellen Cantarow on November 19th, 2012
EcoWatch: There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life.
In the end, this conflict may matter more than those in Iraq and Afghanistan ever did. And yet it’s taking place far from newspaper front pages and with hardly a notice on the nightly news. Nor is it being fought in Yemen or Pakistan or Somalia, but in small hamlets in upstate New York. There,...