Here's video of a few speeches and a pan of the big crowd at the IDNR public comment hearing on fracking regulation held December 17, 2013. Between my amateur camera and amateur video skills, I didn't get that much usable footage, but the select comments in this video are excellent.
The opening music clip is Dust Bowl Children
by Decatur native Alison Krauss and Union Station. The lyrics seem appropriate.Strip mines and one crop farming drained the green earth dry.I previously posted comments by Roy Wehrle that aren't included in the above video, and you can catch video of the entire hearing at the end of the Illinois Times article.
We lost it all till only love was left, and that was the one thing money can’t buy.
We’re all Dust Bowl Children
Singin’ the dust bowl song
Well, the crops won’t grow,
And the dust just blows
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.