“The whole fracking-game reminds me of taking my children to a carnival where the bright lights and games of chance beckon them to spend their allowance to win a fabulous prize. They see a handful of people walking around with big stuffed animals and rationalize that they, too, can enjoy such rewards. But the grown-ups know that it’s all a racket. For every ‘winner,’ there are hundreds of people who were duped, who spent great sums of money and received no prize. And those who do walk away with the big stuffed bunny get home to find the seams loose and limbs falling off—proof of how cheaply made and worthless the prize truly was. In the same way, for every ‘winner’ in the frack-racket, there are hundreds who were duped, who received no big pay-off from the industry, whose well-paying job dissolved when the company pulled out and moved, and who found their well poisoned, their health destroyed and their communities ruined. Brasch is one of the grown-ups who is trying to tell us the truth about this racket and reveal the ugly underside of fracking-roulette.” More…