Sunrise

The Sunrise movement is a group of young environmentalists who want governments to regulate corporations supplying energy with fossil fuels. The purpose is to stop the climate change. There is such a group at W&M which has had outdoor meetings which local residents, like me, have attended.

At the same time over in the next county, Charles City, is more than 200 acres which has been set aside for a fracking project. It will need to use some water from James City County. Seasoned environmentalists think spewing out methane is a poor option to spewing out CO2.

Update Jan 2021: Plans for Charles City County have been abandoned due to so many citizens objecting.

Here’s what medical doctors have to say against fracking – from a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1913663