{"id":2419,"date":"2013-01-08T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2013-01-08T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:10:36","slug":"fracking-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2013\/01\/08\/fracking-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read <a title=\"Fracking industry draws closer in Illinois\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/top-stories\/x65624690\/Fracking-industry-draws-closer-in-Illinois?zc_p=1\">Fracking industry draws closer in Illinois.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like the energy industry&#8217;s case is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no clean energy. Fracking can be safely regulated.<\/li>\n<li>This will create jobs in Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In evaluating these things, I wonder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has fracking been in practice long enough to evaluate long term impacts?<\/li>\n<li>How do early estimates of negative impacts and regulation to address this of established energy extraction techniques (off-shore drilling seems like a good example) match with the realities we&#8217;ve seen since the technology was introduced?<\/li>\n<li>How long will the jobs created by fracking in Illinois exist? How long have they existed in other communities?\u00a0 Will these jobs disappear in a manner similar to auto-industry jobs in the rust belt. Do places with low unemployment exist because they have have a single large industry that employs a lot of people or a mesh of industries with pathways for people to move to other types of work when one employer dries up?<\/li>\n<li>How do you quantify the cost of unemployment vs. being employed in a dangerous or environmentally toxic job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read Fracking industry draws closer in Illinois. It seems like the energy industry&#8217;s case is: There&#8217;s no clean energy. Fracking can be safely regulated. This will create jobs in Illinois In evaluating these things, I wonder: Has fracking been in practice long enough to evaluate long term impacts? How do early estimates of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2013\/01\/08\/fracking-in-illinois\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fracking in Illinois<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-D1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}