Archive for August, 2022

Hey, Tom Shepstone, Fractivists Are People, Too

August 12, 2022

Open Letter To A Notorious Gas Propagandist 

Dear Mr. Shepstone:

I’m a fractivist and you don’t know me at all.

You are correct in only one of the seven sweeping generalizations you listed in your recent, hugely offensive blog post, Why Shale Gas Fractivists Are Doomed to Lose, NaturalGasNow, July 28, 2013. I’m not sure if you’re aware, but it’s actually not cool to catalog your dislike for people who don’t share your opinions, then list your misapprehensions like sociological observations. Please allow me to introduce myself…

1)  “The typical anti doesn’t have to earn a living off the land he or she insists on protecting.”    (more…)