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in fact, it may, and prolly will, come back & bite us in the ass long after these corporate energy mavericks are dead & gone or out of business so YES, there is a downside to fracking which saddles future generations w/ toxic cesspools.
Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well | Environment | The Guardian
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Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well | Environment | The Guardian
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In north Texas, where Kronvall lives, the number of new oil and gas wells has gone up by nearly 800% since 2000. It's impossible to drive for any length of time without seeing the signs, even after the rigs have moved on elsewhere: the empty squares of flattened earth, the arrays of condensate tanks, the compressor stations and pipelines, and large open pits of waste water. Virtually no site is off limits. Energy companies have fracked wells on church property, school grounds and in gated developments. Last November, an oil company put a well on the campus of the University of North Texas in nearby Denton, right next to the tennis courts and across the road from the main sports stadium and a stand of giant wind turbines. In Texas, as in much of America, property owners do not always own the "mineral rights" the rights to underground resources so typically have limited say over how they are developed.