republic piece about a colorado school of public health says the central finding is a strong correlation between proximity to fracking wells and congenital heart defects. and goes on to cite more data that goes to the heart of i think a lot of the environmental movement, which is a concern about the well-being of children, of families, of land. and yet and i would accept your group in the broader debate about environmental reform and energy reform, the public health angle is not the first thing people talk about. it s the first thing you hear president obama talking about. that s why i wasn t surprised when he was announcing the epa regs that he was in a hospital on a children s ward talking about the asthma that kids have. and so i always say to environmental groups when i m visiting with them, you ve got to start talking about this in terms where people can relate to. you have to start telling stories. connecting with the moms, the farmers and the ranchers, who are standing up fo
explorers for fracking shale formations leading to traffic with heaving trucks creating noise nuisances and traffic hazards. that s also reasonable sounding. rex tillerson is all about fracking as long as all the ugly trappings that come along with it that are really built into it are nowhere near his property. now, the attorney representing mr. tillerson and his neighbors is trying to distance his clients from scrutiny. michael whitton tells the ft. worth star telegram he wishes he d been more careful drafting the language in the suit we ve been reporting on. this is not an anti-fracking lawsuit. nothing could be further from the truth. i want to pause here. that response that you just heard shows they really still don t get it. this is not about the technical definition of fracking. it s about whether we re going to have an honest reality-based debate about the cost of our energy policies. and look, those costs can get pretty ugly. unsightly water towers. fracking wells.
heard shows they really still don t get it. this is not about the technical definition of fracking. it s about whether we re going to have an honest reality-based debate about the cost of our energy policies. and look, those costs can get pretty ugly. unsightly water towers. fracking wells. strange smells. and the kind of air and noise pollution that just about anyone would avoid if they could afford it. that s what the listee family lives with. they run an organic farm on the edge of the eagle ford shale, a strip of oil and gas extraction that stretches from south to eastern texas but they, well, no surprise, don t have the money or lawyers or connections of exxonmobil ceo and they have to live with those costs. it just makes constant noise. day have bright lights on all night long. and that one was completed last summer. it flared nonstop for a year. we re standing on the road. we own that kind of the road .
it s about whether we re going to have an honest reality-based debate about the cost of our energy policies. and look, those costs can get pretty ugly. unsightly water towers. fracking wells. strange smells. and the kind of air and noise pollution that just about anyone would avoid if they could afford it. that s what the listee family lives with. they run an organic farm on the edge of the eagle ford shale, a strip of oil and gas extraction that stretches from south to eastern texas but they, well, no surprise, don t have the money or lawyers or connections of exxonmobil ceo and they have to live with those costs. it just makes constant noise. they have bright lights on all night long. and that one was completed last summer. it flared nonstop for a year. we re standing on the road. we own that kind of the road. this is the neighbor s where they re doing a massive frack job. you can hear the noise. pretty loud. really echos late at night.
which is not a legal designation, right? this is a political analysis. it s my analysis, yes, but this is very, very commonplace. and you know, west virginia is a state that has been ravaged for a hundred years, mountaintop removal, throughout the state. employeei i blowing the tops off of mountains in the south, to an explosion of fracking wells in the north part of the state. let me come to that. the idea that west virginia, on the one hand, we were just talking about soldiers as representative as this kind of american narrative of the hearty american who goes out and does things that represent who we are as a country. and coal miners generally are. these are good people who we know don t earn a lot of money, but are doing work that fuels the rest of who we are. i think that s the romantic version of what the american coal mining story is. but then we see something like this. and we see water supplies tainted, potentially, for hundreds of thousands of people, and of course, obv