A group called the Healthy Schools Network has been trying to make a case against hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development in New York. It turns out the group has very unhealthy extremist connections.

Last Friday’s Susan Arbetter show out of Albany (“The Capitol Pressroom”) included, at 38:00, an interview with two individuals from an organization known as the Healthy Schools Network about the impact of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development on New York Schools. It wasn’t a particularly illuminating interview and largely consisted of arguments set forth in this story last year, which we’ll address in a moment. What really caught our attention was one of the spokespersons for the group, an individual named Jeff Jones and that led to a few other interesting findings about the Healthy Schools Network.

Jeff Jones is listed as one of two organizational contacts in this press release last year regarding the Healthy School Network’s position on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development. He also appears as a director of the organization in its 990 return for 2010 and reportedly consults with the group. He went on the air with Susan Arbetter to intone, in his most serious non-threatening voice, his great concern about the “serious questions facing the health of our kids.” Well, the parents ought to be concerned because if the health of New York’s schools is to be influenced by Jeff Jones, there is plenty to worry about given his unhealthy history of extremist activism.

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