“If you go back to the history of it, it’s not very well-known technology and what we do know about it, in Pennsylvania, it’s actually poisoned the underground water there. So I think we have to definitely do a lot more studies before we go can ahead full speed. I don’t think New York is ready for it.”
(Rosa Pascarella, 56, of Syracuse, customer service representative, Wegmans)
“I do not like how it would tap into our water supply as far as your fountain water, your drinking water. I would definitely not recommend that at all because we would like our fresh, clean water.”
(Tashema Copeland, 27, of Liverpool, customer service representative, AT&T)
“It seems like it’d be a great way to create jobs. It’d stop us from being dependent on foreign oil. It sounds like a win-win situation for me. I don’t seem to see what the problem is.”
(Melvin Jackson, 43, of Syracuse, environmental services, Shoppingtown Mall)
“I think they need to do more work to understand what its affects really are. I mean they say they have studies for what’s going on, but they don’t have any, I don’t think, long-term evidence as to what its affects could be. I mean it just seems like it’s not fully fleshed out yet.”
(Erik Nelson, 24, of Syracuse, structural engineer, Stopen Engineering)
“I just haven’t really been here all that long. It’s a pretty new subject matter for me, but it means a lot to a lot of people. I don’t believe that it affects me personally at this point, but maybe I’ll find out more.”
(Amy Perez, 44, of DeWitt, originally of San Francisco, CA, unemployed, previous business administrator, Tavistock)
(Amy Lipman is a senior with dual majors in broadcast journalism and international relations.)
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