Fracking, a term co-opted by the natural gas opposition as a stand-in for a battle against everything, is losing steam.  Reality has intruded on the crude humor, which was always destined to have a short half-life anyway.

Last month 8,500 neighbors dropped in on the Cabot Oil & Gas picnic in Susquehanna County. That’s Dimock country, partner, and yet thousands walked the runways, stopped at the booths to chat with exhibitors, checked out drilling equipment while chowing down on hamburger and funnel cakes.

Sure, free food always draws a crowd, but if there were bad feelings in the community, rest assured there would have been local picketers. But there weren’t any. And that’s reality in Dimock, the “belly of the beast.” A good time was had by all.

So what’s real? Early on we were warned that gas development would leave us wandering in a wasteland. Let’s take a look.

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