That's really my point on much of the various energy debates as a whole, there is always some uncertainty. If they can't track down what's leaking where at near-surface levels, whether it is drilling operations or a holding area or what, it really makes me believe they understand a lot less of what's going on thousands of feet below that... I don't care what their studies say, the smallest of unconceived variables can throw their entire line of reasoning out the window. They're clueless.
I'm not for or against fracking, solar, wind, or anything else of the sort. I am against anyone that is either for or against it; because to be either for or against it, you either have to have some sort of agenda of your own, or are just blindly parroting those that do have an agenda. There is big money in just the promotion of the agendas (a.k.a. propaganda), generally that money comes from bad places and goes to even worse places... I don't want on either "side" of that fence, nor in the middle where folk get into all these heated debates about things they want to be facts. I'll set on the sidelines and try to wake up the spectators that have fallen asleep, because it is something we should be paying attention to before anything gets too awful...
What I am for is conservation. There is no such thing as "energy independence". That is a pipe dream some try to sell folk on. Energy must come from someplace, and some sort of change needs to occur to create said energy. There is no independent source of energy that just simply exists as energy waiting to be used. Our goals should be to use what best suits the needs from a conservation standpoint. Piping power here and there whether in pipe or in wires or in trucks on the roads is not a solution, and no one solution is going to work equally everywhere.
People who don't have a truly 'better idea' should simply SHUSH and listen until someone does have a truly better idea. Anyone can complain, it takes a unique individual to come up with a REAL plan...
A lot of what gets said and done reminds me of a Ben Franklin quote:
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
He was a pretty smart fella...
