Sounds innocent, but it is more complicated, secret formulas, contains radioactive materials and other nasty stuff. There are cases of accidental spills and contamination, people and animals getting sick.
Shale formations in which fracking is used are thousands of feet deep. Drinking water aquifers are generally only a hundred feet deep. There's solid rock between them.
Not so simple geology, guaranteed solid rock?
Cases of contaminated drinking water, some places in PA are sorry they allowed fracking. Pumping this stuff into ground under very high pressures is not so straight forward, possible disturbances in the geology causing earthquakes (LA)
Worth looking into accidents and coming up with solutions to avoid and minimize potential irreversible damage.
It's nothing do. They have been fracking vertical wells in Texas since the early fifties. We've got over sixty years experience with it.
Over that course of time there has never been one instance of groundwater contamination that traced to fracking. None.
Any problems that have occurred trace to spills and mismanagement -- which can (and do) happen in any industry. I'm not aware of any such event in the past sixty years that might be considered "a danger to the community", however.
Earthquakes happen. Even when there is no fracking. They're not commonplace in this part of the country...but they've been known to rattle our cage from time-to-time. There is no apparent connection to fracking -- though a lot of people (and the media) would like to find one.
Objecting to the process -- when the facts counter every single enviro argument -- only gets in the way of exploiting a valuable natural resource that will make money for the American economy, American industry and American labor -- while saving energy-consuming Americans big money.
The enviros and the media are feeding you a line of shit.
Sorry, can't think of any plainer way to say it.
Most of the fracking is being done miles down below any water table used for humans. When they actually investigate, rather than speculate - EPA science, all cases have shown that fracking didn’t contaminate anything. Ecco-freaks start the rumors and then the EPA freezes everything while they plod through speculation that they label investigation.