Empty cars head back to North Dakota for more Bakken crude.

Where have all the anti-frackers gone?

You may have noticed we haven’t heard too much lately from groups opposed to the drilling practice, which involves sending millions of gallons of water and chemicals into the ground to free up oil and natural gas deposits trapped in rocks.

Their last big push seems to have come last year, with the film “Gasland II,” about the possible ill effects that fracking Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale could pose to the Delaware River basin at the vanguard.

But since that time, we have only seen more development. Oil production is now at a 28-year high, while gas production is at all-time highs. There are now even plans to snake a new natural gas pipeline under the west side of Manhattan. 

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