[glock rocks]

... to allow a similar statewide ban of the revolutionary oil and gas drilling technique ...

Um, fracking has been used commercially since the fifties.

[bestintxas]

“Um, fracking has been used commercially since the fifties.”

Yeah, but they lowered nitroglycerin in the well to frac the rock during that time.

New frac technologies, coupled with horizontal drilling, makes my top 4 of most important technological achievements I have witnessed during my +40 years as a petroleum engineer.