3/17/17 : EXTREME ENERGY STORIES
Traveling to “gaslands” across America, from Texas to the upstate New York shores of the Delaware River, I collect the stories of those affected by the dramatic rise in nationwide gas drilling, in a variety of ways.
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“It would destroy everything,” says one Callicoon, New York farmer of the potential presence of fracking in the Catskill mountains. “One contamination and that’s it.” Despite the vastly disparate geographic differences in the respective places they reside, one thing uniting this diverse group of people is a shared understanding of the havoc drilling not only on their own land, but surrounding areas would wreak. However, this anxiety is not limited to a strictly environmental context — as one Nigerian citizen alarmed by the uptick in drilling in Baldwin Hills, California, says, gas-related development in his home village left in its wake “no safe drinking water, no light, no streets [and] no housing.”
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