00:00This area we stand on was, a little over three years ago, was nothing but a forest.
00:12It was a tree, all trees.
00:14It was very high, very steep, and it was basically all that anybody and the old people could
00:20do was allow the timber to grow.
00:43You know, it's definitely helped the financial benefits as far as the community continues
00:48to do well because they're getting royalties off of the gas wells, so that's a good thing.
01:11So you better think this gas, it ain't going to be here forever, but by God I'll tell you,
01:18it's a means of supply and what they're running around here complaining in this and it's these
01:24radicals.
01:41As far as my opinion, I believe the man has enough common sense to realize that this is
02:10a source of income, it's a source of bargaining in the world.
02:35I grew up in a coal mining community not far from here and it's sad to see the state
02:41of a lot of those places, but with the oil and gas, they established a new tax structure
02:48in Pennsylvania to where a lot of the money is diverted back to the local communities,
02:53counties.
03:20I believe that your word is your bond, like your word should matter.
03:24So the fact that somebody said even recently, like I guess Kamala changed her opinion about
03:29fracking, like if you said that years ago that you were going to shut down fracking
03:34and you're not going to allow fracking, well, I believe as Americans we should honor each
03:39other's word.
03:58With politics aside, fracking has been positive, I would say, all around.
04:05So to be anti-fracking is kind of like being anti-farmer, right?
04:10How do you get rid of the farmer?
04:11You can't really get rid of the farmer.
04:13You know, now that fracking has worked as well as it has, there was a point in time,
04:18at least when Trump was president, that we were energy independent.
04:23I thought that was a pretty good thing for the economy, a pretty good thing for America.
04:36We don't have any active wells on our farm, but I know that we get residuals from mining
04:43underneath, like the gas being extracted that way.
04:46So I know, like personally, we're not thrilled about the environmental impact of it, but
04:52we know that the money is important to people.
05:03There's too much money and momentum behind fracking as an industry.
05:08It's going to happen, no matter who, like really, no matter a Democrat or a Republican
05:14at this point, it's going to happen.
05:16It's bought and sold already.
05:18The deals are done.
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