How Politics, Big Money, and Fracking Mix and Mingle
- James Browning & Pat Clifford, Drilling Deep Pockets in Congress and Ohio, CommonCause.org, Nov. 10, 2011
This is an excellent in-depth study on how the fracking industry has been pumping more than more than $747 million into the pockets of state and federal politicians.
“The ability of the natural gas industry to tap vast new reserves through fracking is a good metaphor for its enhanced political clout in the post-Citizens United era, in which the industry and its backers can now spend unlimited amounts of money on electioneering, often in secret.” (p. 13)
Slow Down Fracking & Injection Wells in Athens County 