Regarding Jeremy Moule's "Gas Well Impacts Add Up": I agree with the headline. Jobs will be created in record number. New York will prosper with renewed economic vitality. We'll see a construction boom with new homes, hotels, restaurants, and stores. Entrepreneurs will open more locally-owned stores. Restaurants will serve more customers. New York may gain population instead of bleeding college grads to other states. From where I sit, it's all good.

However, your article doesn't tell this story. In fact, some essential facts are missing, replaced with unattributed half-truths and doomsday speculations. Yes, an amped-up natural gas industry will increase truck traffic. However, the operator is required to repair all roads where damage is caused, and in most cases post bonds. Often, as our neighbors in Pennsylvania will tell you, roads are more quickly and thoroughly repaired than normally trod roads waiting for state hired-work crews.

Storm-water runoff can affect water quality. Last year water near some organic farms suffered, not because of the oil and gas industry, but because increased planting cycles and the detritus created left unhealthy deposits in freshwater.

City reporter Jeremy Moule's article quoted two respected environmental activists, but failed to seek equally credible sources from the natural-gas industry. The science and the facts were sorely missing from this story - and it's the science and facts that hold the key to a better New York.

JOHN HOLKO, ALEXANDER, NEW YORK

Holko is president, Lenape Resources.