http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/19/the-human-story-of-hydrofracking/ Climate Change News & Analysis Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/19/the-human-story-of-hydrofracking/comment-page-1/#comment-67158 Marian Taranto Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:36:40 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12388#comment-67158 My husband, a native of NYC, and I, with our family, moved to upstate N.Y. in 1987 after he retired from a 21 yr. career in the Navy. His uncle had a "cut and sew" factory in Norwich and hired him to set up the automated printing. Even though this area was already labeled as depressed, it still was home to 3 sewing plants, 2 very large pharmacutical companies and 2 government contract manufacturing plants. Now there remains only the last 2. The families affiliated with these businesses are gone and now so are we. Utilities are some of the most costly in the country and we just couldn't afford to stay.Those against fracking won the land, but they lost the people. My husband, a native of NYC, and I, with our family, moved to upstate N.Y. in 1987 after he retired from a 21 yr. career in the Navy. His uncle had a “cut and sew” factory in Norwich and hired him to set up the automated printing. Even though this area was already labeled as depressed, it still was home to 3 sewing plants, 2 very large pharmacutical companies and 2 government contract manufacturing plants. Now there remains only the last 2. The families affiliated with these businesses are gone and now so are we. Utilities are some of the most costly in the country and we just couldn’t afford to stay.Those against fracking won the land, but they lost the people.

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