Lycoming County Landowners Prep Lawsuit for Water Well Contamination

An anti-fossil fuel professor from New York University spent a significant amount of time in Lycoming County, PA in order to figure out what makes "rural middle America" tick. In particular, the prof interviewed a number of residents to understand why rural PA hicks (our term for his sentiment) lease their land for fracking even when Big Oil companies treat them badly, screwing up their water wells and polluting everything in sight. The prof wrote a book about what he found called, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town". There is one interview in particular that caught our attention.

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