Quote Originally Posted by Lowellhturner View Post
Am not a "FAN" of vertical ( NOT "fracking'!!!) drilling in the State Parks, but am LESS of a "fan" of the alternatives- #1 raising taxes (BOO ! HISS !) #2 the State feeling forced to implement a "User" fee either per visit, or annually #3 continue to further slash the Park system`s operating budget to the point even critically needed repairs just can`t be done and the State Health Dept. forces some of them to close #4 the more remote and less used Parks are forced into Nature Preserve status and closed to the public, with funding only for the more heavily used Parks, putting even more pressure on them, with still no more Maint funds than before...again, there are at least 6 states that currently have VERTICAL drilling/ oil pumping inside of some of their state park boundaries. To date am not aware of any major issues assuming the drilling is done RESPONSIBILY, with containment/ clean up resources ON HAND and ready to go and HUGE financial PENALTIES for "cutting corners..."
I have a much less vested interest in the parks, at least CJ Brown, than do you to be sure. I do know that as a nation we have managed over the last 50 or so years to borrow and promise ourselves into a really bad hole. The fallout of that is not going to be pretty I'm sure, but of course we all would like to keep things as they are as much as we can. I'm just not optomistic that we can, though I'd like nothing more than to be wrong about that!