Re: “,” May 23 news story.
Your article did a great job of balancing the competing interests in the fracking debate.
As someone with a lot of friends and neighbors in the oil and gas industry, I know how sincere they are in trying to be good neighbors to those communities in which they do their drilling. On the other hand, I can appreciate the sentiment of those who are working to ensure that their homes and families are protected. Makes sense. I hope that they are sincere when they say they aren’t after a ban on fracking, because there are a lot of activists out there trying to actually ban fracking by putting a setback on the November ballot. In the meantime, the state has proposed reasonable rules that meet the needs of both the oil and gas firms and nearby homeowners.
Requiring firms to keep light and sound to a minimum and reduce truck traffic issues through the use of pipelines is the right thing to do.
Hattie Reed, Castle Rock
This letter was published in the May 25 edition.
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