What? No talk of the pending ecological disaster?
Fracking threatens the water supply of over 100 million Americans. It is a pending disaster that will make the recent Gulf spill look like a hiccup. It could ruin the ground water across large swaths of America - a disaster that would be permanent on a human scale.
This is not an overstatement, and current policy couldn't possibly be more shortsighted. I just hope people wake up and realize this before it's too late. Clean fresh water, not natural gas, will be the commodity of the 21st century. It's probably the only thing upon which all futurists agree.
The frackers claim that their wells are much deeper than the aquifer, but all it takes is a problem with the casing going down into the well, or a problem with their catchment pond, their waste disposal methods, etc. for their poisons and natural gas to leach into the water table. They can't promise that it won't happen, and it's almost guaranteed that it will, over and over again, as it already has happened many times.
