so, kate sinding, talk to us a little bit that's. the obvious plus suget more and it's what cost? >> right, ye, fracking, the development of fracking combined in the case of many of these resources with horizontal drilling that allows for them to develop resources where they previously hadn't thought that they economically could do so. what those two technologies involved mean together is significant amounts of water usage, significant generation of waste waters, generation of air pollution, lots of traditional pollution, significant amount of water involved in fracking translate into ndreds of tru trip for every well pad. those in turn turn into not only air quality impacts but impacts to quality of life, the kinds of things that we saw in a clip from one of the segments earlier this week. we're grappling with some really serious issues now, issues the industry itself is acknowledging present real problems, waste water being a key example. the wurt that-- waste water generated through the extraction of gas using the fracking process is heavily contaminated, both with chemicals us

we pick up on some of the questions raised by the energy boom now with kate sinding. deputy director with the national resources defense council. her work includes promoting smart growth and monitoring environmental and health impacts of natural gas drilling in new york state. and robert bryce, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, who's written widely on energy matters, including his recent book, "power hungry: the myth of green energy." kate sinding, i'll start with you, a boom in new production, overturning a lot of old assumptions about energy in this country. give us an overview first. what do you see happening? >> well, what we see happening that the way tatnaturalis uny otally unacceptable. you've got an industry that's running roughshod over communities. thigh think that they're entitled to operate under a different set of rules than those that apply to everybody else. and the result is a pattern of negative impacts to water, to air, to health, and to our communities. it's not something that should be happening in america in 2012. and, moreover, it's not