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You have no clue about what you are saying.

Fracking is safe, especially with the strict procedures and standards in place that make it safe. You could not give me even a minute example of why or how what you claim is credible.

But go ahead, give it your best shot, and while you are at it, explain it in engineering detail. I can hardly wait.

I must say that I really enjoy the clowns that claim fracking causes natural gas in their well water.

In 1911 Michigan's first commercial natural gas well began production. The tabulation of "Reported Discoveries of Gas in Michigan" in the Geological Survey Bulletins is longer than the oil well list and included 116 wells. These were mostly located in southeastern Michigan, including Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair and Wayne counties as well as in Manistee County in western Michigan. Many of the early natural gas discoveries were most likely made not as a result of a search for oil or natural gas but were instead test wells drilled for salt or for fresh water. Strong flows of gas from water wells are not unusual in southeastern Michigan and sometimes the shallower rims of the basin can still provide a surprise. In the mid 1980s holes drilled to provide footings for a highway overpass in St. Clair County "blew out" with natural gas. The flow of gas from these early wells was usually quite small. The largest volume of natural gas was in St. Clair County were wells supplied "several families" in one case, "pumps, drills and two houses" in another case and "one house" in a number of instances.

Michigan Oil and Natural Gas Exploration Before 1925

I wasn't talking about setting the well water on fire. If that is going to happen, you could probably do that in the first place. Heck, I have been to places where you have to be careful drilling a water well because of the chance of hitting natural gas (eastern New Mexico south of Portales if I remember right)

There have been cases where the driller went through the water table, and managed to get some oil lubricant that showed up in a test well. Nasty lawsuit (in which I was tangentially involved) that involved the local water authority and a whole lot of folks who were suddenly told not to drink their water. It was never totally proven the hyrdo carbons in the water came from the drilling oil, but was nasty enough no one won.