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I challenge Mickey McVay’s assertion in his Feb. 17 Gazette letter (“An ‘oily’ response”) that I impugned his character because of my statement that he could possibly be biased in favor of a new type of gas drilling because he worked in the oil/gas field for 48 years. I think McVay should ask himself if […]

In his Feb. 3 letter (“Mother Nature in fracturing business”), Mickey McVay states that I am not reporting facts in letters to Oklahoma Gazette concerning horizontal drilling/hydraulic fracturing (fracking) used to recover natural gas from underground shale. McVay made his living in part by selling fracking chemicals, and this places McVay in a knowledgeable but […]

I commend Tom Price Jr., senior vice president of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, for his willingness to discuss the toxicity issues of natural gas extraction (“Chesapeake executive responds to letter,” Jan. 13, Oklahoma Gazette). An honest discussion is needed to ensure that the method for extracting gas from shale (horizontal drilling/hydraulic fracturing) does not negate the […]