I think the issue is that fracking is far from a solved problem, environmentally or scientifically. The scientific community is divided on the issue and, as a r

I think the issue is that fracking is far from a solved problem, environmentally or scientifically. The scientific community is divided on the issue and, as a result, we're letting that unsolved problem get drilled into the ground permanently. It would be one thing if this were a relatively small scale issue and a few wells were around to let us analyze the long term effects, but we seem to be drilling up a quarter of the state in North Dakota. I no longer trust industry to protect me after such major failures and Bhopal or Deep Horizon. Even if those were isolated accidents, the repercussions are so large that we need to know without question that what we are doing is safe. We don't. Furthermore, companies constantly try to get less regulation. That's part of what they do. They want lax regulation on living conditions, safety and wastewater. Not to mention that they recently hired a former governor to lobby for lower taxes on oil companies. I don't trust these guys to keep us safe. Those issues aside, the destructiveness goes beyond the environmental issues immediate to that area. Fracking simply gives us more greenhouse gases to burn and they do not force us to reanalyze our lifestyles and public policy as it relates to the environment or our communities.