A part of Andy's question remains: Which creates more environmental
destruction, fuel obtained by current means in various faraway places or
fuel obtained in our back yard by the proposed means. Granted it all
goes through the same convoluted chain of processing and distribution;
still, the extraction processes at origin might be very different. It
seems possible that the vigilance and regulation applied in Central New
York would keep the destructiveness of the extraction process
significantly less harmful to the earth (as a whole) than the process
used in the Middle East or elsewhere. Any facts pertaining to this?
Andrejs
Hilary Lambert wrote:
Andy,
To answer your specific question:
Gas that is being extracted here or will be extracted here via hydrofracking
is not being 'used locally.' It goes into small feeder pipes that go to
larger and then larger ones, and becomes part of the global supply, sold and
shipped to whoever buys it wherever. It is not a 'local' resource like
home-grown vegetables.
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