“Most of the technical work will be done by people from out-of-state,” Fischer says. “That is the way it has been done everywhere else. The figures that I have seen show that the calculations for the number of jobs are really way too high and they are not realistic because they don’t take into account that the production of these wells drop by half within the first two years.”

One of the primary concerns of the protesters is the proliferation of deep wells used to dispose of the chemical waste-water left over from fracking. Some have been tied to earthquakes.

Fischer says her group plans to continue encouraging residents to learn more about fracking at a public forum next Monday in Ravenna.