I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth

‘Fossil fuel is now the worst way to power machines, in the many cases when those machines can run on electricity from renewables.’‘Fossil fuel is now the worst way to power machines, in the many cases when those machines can run on electricity from renewables.

San Juan county and the surrounding area are the world’s largest known coalbed methane field. One hundred and twenty-two fracking wells are scattered on and around the land to which Don and Jane hold title, and there are more than 20,000 in the region. Each well presents a threat to the long-term well-being of the land, water and life this place sustains.

We had gotten caught in that rain because I wanted to see the ruins that Don had mentioned, and had gone a little farther out rather than turning back, despite the ominous sky. At the far end of our journey across the Schreiber ranchlands, we had come to a place where an orange-red sandstone cliff paralleled the rough road. In its heights was a stone structure built many hundreds of years ago by the Diné inhabitants of the area.

What will be left behind is some profit in the accounts of shareholders, some emissions from the dirtiest fuel on earth, and a vast hole that will fill with water and become a manmade lake. No one standing on the rim of that lake a century or five from now will have benefited from the coal.

It’s something we need to do to escape the many kinds of devastation that came with the age of fossil fuel. That includes not only the damage to water, earth and air, but to our politics, as reliance on the unevenly distributed resource props up tyrannical regimes tolerated for access to fuel and bullying corporations spreading propaganda and corrupting politics. Fossil fuel is now the worst way to power machines, in the many cases when those machines can run on electricity from renewables.

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