I've been reading a lot lately about everyday Americans getting fed up with fracking -- with the way that the big gas companies have been running roughshod over lush rolling hills and pristine farmland with their unsightly rigs, poisoning water supplies and polluting the air. But nothing has quite gotten to me like the simple words of a Pennsylvania farmer named Stephen Cleghorn. Cleghorn seems by all appearances to be a man who had a simple dream. Seven years ago, Cleghorn and his wife Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez moved to an idyllic corner of northwestern Pennsylvania. After a lifetime spent mostly working in the non-profit sector helping the homeless, Cleghorn and his wife -- a former college humanities teacher -- bought a 50-acre property amid the hills. They called it Paradise: Paradise Gardens & Farm. It is the only organic farm in a three-county area, the only goat dairy and creamery in the entire region. Very quickly, their community table became a source of fellowship -- and goat's milk -- to new neighbors and friends. But eventually, there would be trouble in Paradise. In 2009, the couple first learned that they lived atop the Marcellus Shale formation, a region that the natural-gas industry was coveting with its ...
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