Williamsport, PA. The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd.
Fracking--formally called hydraulic fracturing--involves briefly pumping water, sand and chemicals into shale formations far beneath Earth's surface and thousands of feet below the aquifers that irrigate crops and quench human thirst. This process cracks these rocks and liberates the gas within. Though employed for decades with seemingly no verified contamination of ground water, anti-fracking activists behave as if this technology were invented specifically to poison Americans.
