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Comment by Frank Walker on February 12, 2013 at 12:59pm

Fractivists see great opportunity to advance their cause by stopping, or slowing, pipelines and compressor stations.  They know without pipelines Marcellus Gas will have a much more difficult path to market, which will impede drilling.

It's a huge, and common, error to assume filthy fractivists are primarily opposed to fracking for its own sake.  Instead, their opposition to fracking is merely a means to an end.  If the industry were to develop "green" fracking, and this is foolishly being worked on, the fractivists would simply find another excuse to oppose the NG development they find so abhorrent.

NG is the principal and primary threat, it is a huge threat, to the fractivist's fervent desire for a world powered by renewable resources.  They will spare no expense and they will devote all their efforts to stopping NG whenever and wherever they are able, by and through any means available to them.  Fractivists are fools.  But they are also zealots capable of doing great harm.  Their pernicious nature has always been underestimated and continues to be underestimated.   

Comment by Schnoozie on February 7, 2013 at 2:05pm

Tom. Great article. Something that is note worthy is the relationship between America Online, The Huffington Post and their little Sisters across the country called "The Patch". These local online newspapers do everything they can day in and day out to reinforce the anti-drilling arguement at a local level. Under the guise of a campy newspaper you can pick up for free at the local Sheets gas station.  It's the same crew, same objectives.