Vic Furman wants his neighbor back and urges getting the natural gas facts:

"Together we stood, when snows fell so heavy, and then we would work together to remove that heavy white stuff. We then relaxed over hot chocolate, sometimes sharing a glass of ginger brandy. We were friends! Together, we faced the challenges of raising children, as our children became best friends who would skin their knees in the fields and fall from trees in the forest, we would wipe the abrasions clean, and provide them with comfort, we were friends! We were good friends, until natural gas came onto the horizon.

My neighbor and I faced many challenges and overcame many obstacles together as neighbors often do because  we were friends!  I also thought I knew my neighbor, precisely because we were friends!

Then, something happened to my neighbor when natural gas became available in our area. It was as if night overtook day and the light of our friendship was darkened by the potential extraction of the natural gas under our homes.

Where we once stood together, we now became divided, but not by a rig, a natural gas well, a pipeline or any of those physical features that often become fences between neighbors.  No, we were divided by truth and science, divided by fact and fiction. Normally, that would not end a friendship, but it did in our case!  I look back at the debate today and it’s right there in front of me, every argument and every debate available on Google search conquers all the mis-information. Recent headlines from major news services tell the story."

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