More Than 15 Million Americans Now Live Within One Mile Of A Fracking Well
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/26/2841841/15-million-americans-live-near-fracking
The natural gas boom has led to an “unprecedented industrialization” of many Americans’ backyards, an analysis from the Wall Street Journal has found.
The WSJ looked at census and natural gas well data from more than 700 counties in 11 major natural-gas producing states, and found that at least 15.3 million Americans have a natural gas well within one mile of their home that has been drilled since 2000.