In 1972,
at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two
miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly
withdrew).
The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks
at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water:
withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water
at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground
at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two
miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.