Between 2016 and 2023, Pennsylvania households paid 51% more for gas as exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) surged and companies enjoyed record profits. Fracking has not decreased gas prices.

More fracking results in more violations affecting air and water — 81,289 since the process began in Pennsylvania.

Independent studies, many conducted in Pennsylvania, indicate living near fracking increases severity of asthma, low birth weights, five to seven times the risk of lymphoma and two to three times the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia for children within 1 mile, cardiology and neurology hospitalizations, migraines and a host of other health problems.

Renewables, not fracking, are the way of the future, providing good-paying jobs, and are sources of clean energy that will protect the environment and health of our families without spills and leaks of toxic fluids; the loss of 14 million to 39 million gallons of water per well from the water cycle forever; radioactive waste and injection wells; methane pollution contributing strongly to climate change; pipelines resulting in sinkholes and water contamination; highly polluting compressor stations, cryogenic plants, processing plants and condensate tanks; and the loss of thousands of acres of state woodlands and beautiful residential and agricultural areas to a dirty and noisy industrial process.

What could be more important than our environment and public health? Surely not greed for more profit.

Jan Milburn

Ligonier

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