Fact: Creeks, streams and water supplies are being sucked dry for use in the fracking.
Fact: Water supplies are being contaminated from run-off and water table seapage.
Fact: Local roads are being destroyed because they weren't built to handle the heavy trucks that are now constantly on the road.
Fact livestock are being condemed because they "might" have consumed run-off from fracking operations. Fact: The gas boom has had a huge effect on the region, most of it very good but the downside cannot be ignored and must be dealt with.
And in Pennsylvania, water supplies re-generate quickly.
Fact: Water supplies are being contaminated from run-off and water table seapage.
Please provide documentation other than anti-fracking propaganda.
Fact: Local roads are being destroyed because they weren't built to handle the heavy trucks that are now constantly on the road.
A nice problem to have in a down economy. Those wells will provide far more tax revenues than the road damage caused to drill them.
Fact livestock are being condemed because they "might" have consumed run-off from fracking operations.
There's that 'might' again.
Fact: The gas boom has had a huge effect on the region, most of it very good but the downside cannot be ignored and must be dealt with.
Yeah, but succumbing to left-wing anti-fracking agitprop is not the way to deal with it.
Forgot to add this. Here is a link from a local paper in the region. Most stories are positive but you will note there are issues.
http://extras.sungazette.com/naturalgas/
Like you said, many local communities appear to have not fully understood the effects on water supply and infrastructure wear and tear.