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Instructiоns: Reаd the cаse study belоw. *Impоrtаnt disclaimer* Please note the case is a fictional case intended to present a realistic scenario. It does not represent any viewpoints of your professor or this institution and is not intended to present or misrepresent any industries in a necessarily positive or negative way. Identify and briefly explain the structure ethical decision-making process you will apply: Kidder’s 9 steps, Collins’s Systematic Rational Ethical Decision-making Process, or Systematic Moral Analysis based on Gert’s theory. Outline the process and describe your work through/application of each step. Conclude with your decision. Your response should clearly identify and describe the structured process you are going to apply, include each step in the process and how you work through each, and clearly and firmly state your decision.   Ethics case study 4: A frack-tured farm A mid-sized 460 acre farm in NE PA located directly adjacent to a small town of ~1200 people is having financial difficulty. They are barely profitable and profits are declining suggesting in 2-3 years the farm will be losing money each year resulting in it closing business. The farm employs 25 people plus family members.   The owners of the farm were approached by a large oil and gas company to obtain rights to recover natural gas located beneath the surface of their land using the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The company would require 4-6 acres and road access to an optimal spot for drilling. A drilling and fracking rig plus a retention pool for the toxic fracking flowback fluid will be placed on the land. The oil and gas company assure the owners the process is safe and will not contaminate the water or land. The projected revenue from the new business will substantially increase the farm owner's income. With this income, the family may be able to invest into the farm infrastructure making the farm business profitable again, potentially allowing them to retain their employees or grow their employee base.   Hearing about this situation, a group of towns people investigate and learn that similar drilling operations from the same company in that region have resulted in well water contamination for properties near the fracking site. This contamination prevented owners from drinking the water or using it for bathing and other purposes. Owners of those properties have approached the oil and gas company about the situation and the oil and gas company denied any connection between their operations and the contamination. There are no known means of cleaning the contaminated water. Moreover, laws, specifically the Energy Policy Act of 2005, exempt oil and gas companies from being liable for drinking water contamination due to hydraulic fracturing. A more detailed investigation reveals that many other drilling operations are not contaminating nearby wells in other locations.   Given the proximity of the farm to the town, and the prevalence of well water use for several dozen town residences and businesses, the group petitions the farm owners to reject the oil and gas proposal. Ethical decision to be made: Should the farm owners allow the company to set up a gas well on their property?