Fracking Trump Country with Eliza Griswold

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What does it look like when fracking comes to town? For folks in poor rural areas, parts of Trump Country before we had Trump Country, fracking can mean opportunity, wealth, and autonomy for some, destruction and ruin for others. Journalist Eliza Griswold tells a story that begins in the Niger delta and brings her to the doorstep of a family farm in Southwest Pennsylvania in the midst of the energy boom. There, in the towns of Amity and Prosperity, she learns about the intimate and complex reasons why people chose to bring fracking to their town, and the crisis they face when mysterious illnesses begin to appear. Read more at NBCNews.com/WhyIsThisHappening

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0:00.0	This is Trump country.
0:01.5	I've been out there for seven years.
0:02.8	So I've been out there long before
0:05.4	journalists came looking for Trump voters.
0:07.1	And I watched, you know.
0:08.9	Did you watch like actual, did you actually,
0:10.8	is that a thing that happened?
0:12.0	Like you saw journalists start to come in looking
0:13.9	for Trump.
0:14.8	Oh my gosh, my Hilton Garden Inn,
0:16.3	where literally I've spent seven years being like,
0:18.8	I am the only person in the social,
0:20.8	like maybe an oil and gas executive.
0:22.6	Suddenly it's overrun.
0:24.7	But what I saw back when I was just starting
0:28.3	to understand these tectonic plates,
0:30.1	I saw a level of hostility and rage
0:32.6	at Urban America at the Urban Elite.
0:35.3	That surprised me.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me?
0:42.3	You're a host, Chris Hayes.
0:43.9	So there's this genre of reporting
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