Federal and state environmental officials have given hydraulic
fracturing a clean bill of health. Why do radical
environmentalists continue to wage war on this game-changing
technology? If frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas
fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear-power plant melted down amid an
earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. In Promised Land, Matt
Damon’s new anti-fracking film funded by the United Arab
Emirates, one character demonstrates this production technique’s
“dangers” by drenching a toy farm with household chemicals and
then setting it ablaze. In the upcoming pro-fracking film,
FrackNation, one Pennsylvania homeowner absurdly claims that
fracking polluted his well water with weapons-grade uranium.
(For details, watch AXS-TV on Tuesday, January 22, at 9 p.m.
EST.) These warnings might be believable if fracking regulators
seemed even slightly worried. Instead, federal and state
environmental officials appear positively serene about hydraul