By Lisa Harrison Something is happening in New York State. It will impact millions of people, but I, like so many others, was unaware until I heard about Minisink from my friend Asha. What Happened in Minisink? In 2011, Asha and her husband Yorke moved into their dream house in the bucolic township of Minisink, NY (about an hour northwest of New York City). The township is in the fertile “Black Dirt Region”, which provides fresh food to markets and restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs. The region sits atop the Wallkill River Aquifer, which contributes to NYC drinking water. After one blissful week in their new home, Asha and Yorke began seeing flyers from Millennium Pipeline, Inc. announcing the arrival of a gas compressor station. They began asking questions (What’s a compressor station anyway?). The compressor would pressurize fracked shale gas from Pennsylvania in order to maximize the amount that can be pushed through the pipeline. Some residents had heard of recent compressor and pipeline explosions. They all knew that Minisink’s volunteer fire department was not equipped to handle a blaze of such magnitude. Residents also feared that transporting fracked gas from nearby Pennsylvania would release toxic fracking [...]