MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) – Ian Somerhalder, star of The CW series “Vampire Diaries,” has publicly shown his opposition to a proposal to set up a fracking well in St. Tammany Parish.
Somerhalder attended a public meeting Wednesday at Lakeshore High School, where many in the crowd waved signs against fracking, Nola.com/The Times-Picayune reported (http://bit.ly/1tJ2CNU ).
Somerhalder’s presence “could explain why there are more teen-agers at this meeting than at earlier meetings” about the proposal by Helis Oil & Gas Co., a reporter wrote in a comment to an earlier story, posted as live coverage.
During a break to fix feedback on the school’s public address system, the actor showed teens a poster about hydraulic fracturing – a technique that injects high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel, and chemicals to extract oil and gas from rock.
The well, if approved, would be set up about 1,800 feet from Interstate 12 and about 1.2 miles from the school, said Helis representative Bill Dale, the evening’s first speaker.