If it messes up water supply, don’t frack.
The biggest problem that the Enviro’s have with Fracking (and horizontal drilling) is that it puts more energy in the hands of the people at a cheaper price. The Enviro’s are hoping that we all go back to the stone-age, and new energy technologies are preventing that.
The whole well water contamination schtick was rampant in my area. It was very difficult to change some peoples minds that their "well" was not tapped down to 6000 ft. Out my way, Marcellus fracks from 6000 to 4000 depths in a spider web type pattern. There are now three fracking rigs in a 10 mile square area and let me tell you, all sorts of new toys are showing up around this area and lots of home improvements. The royalties are kicking in.
Side note, does anyone know (realistically) how long a well can actually produce for? (broad question, I know, just looking for an average is all).
Agreed, but you know how those enviros lie. Look at the AGW crowd for example #1. Oh, and remember in the 90s when they were going on about rain forests? At the rate they were said to be destroyed, they've all been gone for years now!
there is no real, not fantasy, incidence of damaging the water sullpy. That is a fantasy dreamed up by the tight assed women t hat are professional liars, clean water advocates that have no water to clean up.