Expert offers fracking insights  Your Letters By Your Letters on
December 24, 2012 at 3:00 AM 1224cent.JPG AN OIL RIG is
silhouetted at sunset near Fredrick, Colo. The natural gas
drilling method known as hydrofracking has become a political
controversy in a state long friendly to the oil and gas
industry.   By Danny Clabeaux  What do we in Central New York
really know about hydrofracking?  A short while back I spent
some time in West Texas doing development work on oilfield
equipment. My contact there turned out to have more than 30
years of hydro- fracking experience. Here’s some of what he had
to say.  There are thousands of hydrofracked gas wells across
the country. If done diligently, fracking poses no threat to
water tables or the environment. He showed how the well is
encased in concrete. Later, he told me how fracking fluids
should be properly disposed of so that they won’t harm the
environment.  Hydrofracking started to seem safer than I had
thought. I believed what he said, as he really didn’t care