Well, ya reaps what ya sows....
Everyone wants cheap fuel. Fracking brought us cheap oil and gas, many liked that. Greenies started fighting it, as fracking looked to cause environmental damage (contaminated water, runoff, waste, direct gas leaks to air) but public liked cheap fuel, so little is done.
Now.... nuke plants in deregulated areas can't compete with cheap fossil power, and are shutting down. Fracking issues are starting to show. Fewer people support pipelines (MA has pretty much shut down the proposed one there), and oil glut actually is slowing production and exploration.
Looks like there will be a change in the electric market, and I doubt prices will go down.
If fracking gets any serious restrictions / remediation costs put on it, things will slow on the production front.
All large scale energy production has environmental and societal costs... all that's happening now is identification of those costs. Whether producers or govt pays them, it'll be the public that eventually does.
Sux when the new paradigm isn't perfect, doesn't it...
