Summary: KMO plays the second interview from his series with local anti-fracking activists in upstate New York. Chris and Bob Applegate describe how fracking impacts their local food shed. The dangers that fracking operations pose to local groundwater are well known, even though the industry, with help from government agencies, witholds information about which specific chemicals they pump into the ground and thus make it very difficult to pin instances of contaminated water with specific frack jobs. The Applegates expand on that story to describe how fracking degrades the agricultural and recreational value of rural land, puts enormous economic pressure on the most vulnerable residents by driving up rents, and subjects the local economy to the sort of boom and bust cycle which benefits a few and leaves most of the local residents worse off after the highly paid rig operators take their salaries to the next region to be fracked and the handful of landowners who scored a big payday take the money and run for a new place to live, one unspoiled by fracking. At the end of the podcast, Porno Jim Graham responds to Chris Hedges, who castigates liberals for not condemning pornography.
