Pat Kenny: No objectivity on fracking

Not too many months ago, The News & Observer voiced its concerns about fracking in North Carolina, now it is in favor of wind farms.

Fracking would not have been subsidized by the state and the benefits, like mentioned in your April 18 editorial “Wind farm should get OK” for wind farms, would “be considerable in local tax revenues and lease payments to land owners.”

In the opinion of The N&O, the environmental objections to fracking were of vital concern, but in the case of wind farms concerns about the impact on property values, noise and “the risk it might pose for creatures of the air” are merely throwing “wrenches in the works to stop the project cold.”

Fascinating, that for two projects that could provide a positive impact on depressed areas of North Carolina, The News & Observer finds the possible environmental impacts in one highly detrimental and in the other they are merely “wrenches in the works.”

Your infatuation with clean energy has distorted your objectivity.

This story was originally published April 23, 2016 at 2:00 PM with the headline "Pat Kenny: No objectivity on fracking."