I was a drill-baby-drill person before, and I still am, but the boots on the ground have left a very bad taste in people's mouths around here. In Fort Worth, the courts turned 150 years of property rights law on it's head, effectively giving the oil and gas company your rights if you refuse to sign their toilet-paper Producer 88 leases slanted in their favor (even though it's impacting your home). I know folks in west Texas that are really getting screwed; their lease grants them royalties after expenses. The O&G company was drilling on their property for several years and they never saw a dime. Apparently, any expense for the producer, including trips to Hawaii, are deducted against their royalties.
Not everyone in the industry is a bad actor (I know some who are good), but recognize that the bad actors are doing serious damage to the industry because they are not only screwing people out of money, they are also messing up their land (spoiling the water, tapping the well tables dry, etc.).
Don't presume that everyone who is against something speaks from a place of ignorance. There are plenty who have lots of experience...all of which, unfortunately, is bad.
A few more complaints I have heard are:
1) A quiet town becomes busy and noisy because someone opened a fracking well in town.
2) One person lived on the wrong side of train tracks in a town. This was not an issue because trains rarely went through. However, after fracking started, there would be times where he was stuck in his house all day because the trains would just keep coming. The response was, “we don’t care”.