The thing that's most upsetting is the way the eco-nazis and the EPA are going after fracking, they won't be satisfied until it's stopped.
It’s been my experience that its not the fracking (or whatever method is used), but the collateral impacts caused by the a big drilling operation — large, heavy equipment, multiple large frac tanks, noise and dust, trucks tearing up highways, rural and farm roads at all hours of the day and night, and worst of all adjacent landowners (or surface owners) who do not own the mineral rights and are jealous of others making money and disturbing their peace and quiet.
However, unlike oil wells requiring tanks and pumpers to remove the oil and salt water, gas wells have a very small footprint when completed - just an empty pad, a Christmas tree wellhead (branches with valves and gauges), maybe a small gas-fired separator to remove moisture, a solar panel and meter boxes for flow data, and a buried pipeline leading offsite. At some point a compressor station must be constructed to put the gas into a mainline but these can be made relatively sound proof.
All of this is upsetting to rural folk who are set in their lifestyle. For those of us who have moved into an area with already producing wells, we accept these as just part of where we live.