The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Today's debate about the alleged evils of hydraulic fracturing call to mind Chicken Little's dire predictions

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Never mind that the oil and gas industry has been performing hydraulic fracturing for more than 50 years, we can only pray that Hollywood doesn't seize on the fracturing flap to create another disaster epic. Maybe we can be thankful that Charlton Heston has departed for a better place, so he won't be able to make the casting call for "Frac Attack!" the latest effort to eclipse such blockbuster productions as "Towering Inferno," "Earthquake" and "The Omega Man."