| Heather Smith Signs of movement 8 Comments 28 Apr 2014 8:40 PM Share on pocket Share on reddit Share on print One frack mind: How a determined New Yorker won the green Nobel By Heather Smith helen_resize Goldman Environmental Prize Helen Slottje was living the good life in Ithaca, N.Y, when, in 2009, she made a surprising discovery: Her rural community of small towns and dairy farms was practically on top of the Marcellus Shale, the largest known deposit of underground shale gas in the United States. Companies were already descending on Ithaca in search of oil and gas leases. To Helen Slottje, this did not seem like a great idea. |
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