We're going to see more and more pressure to drill in people's backyards, and more sophisticated campaigns to challenge the drilling. That will create political pressure for the companies to implement creative technologies and be more cooperative in local communities. Ultimately, we need the right environment at the state level to allow local authority to regulate the surface impacts.

It certainly helps to raise the profile (of the issue) when someone from within (speaks out). Until now, it has just been us on the sidelines, doing our ankle-biting.