People need to be educated in what happens when they don't have fuel, they may not think a bug is so important that we should not drill or mine.
No, that is not the answer. People have property rights that need to be protected. There is a lot of evidence that the problems with the water are not a direct result of the fracking, that the methane was there before the fracking, but then some of the companies came up with studies that claimed that the problems were related to poorly sealed wells in early fracking efforts.
There are fixes that can should be used to help people whose wells have gone bad. The industry could extend public water to the homes and close off the wells, or prove that the fracking was not the cause of the methane leaking into the homes. I’ve lived in areas where there were homes with methane problems and there was no fracking going on at that time.
Oh, and by the way, without government subsidies, there would be no mining in the west, Powder River Basin. Do you know what the government charges the big mining companies per ton of coal? $1.11, the companies are now selling it for just under $100/ton, with subsidies for the rail transport as well.
They could also stand to learn that a lot of work is required to get it to them.
How do we get electricity? Duh, I put a plug into the wall socket and it's there.
How do we get gas? Duh, I go to a pump at the gas station and it's there.
Some of them also think the supermarket has a room in back where meat is made so no animals are harmed.