[orthodoc]

Fracking pisses me off. It's big (no, huge) business getting a pass on the regs that anyone else would have to observe, because it's Haliburton - creating their little shanty-towns in areas that aren't prepared for the traffic, road wear, noise, or sudden increase in school enrollment without any increase in tax base (the guys working the frack well sites stay on site usually, but their families come along and stay nearby - the kids are enrolled in school but families aren't paying school taxes, so resources get overstretched - until everyone leaves).

The wells and holding ponds are set up literally in long-term residents' backyards. The noise is enough to drive people crazy. PA has a regulation on noise now, but it isn't enforced. The local wells spew weird colors and odors out the kitchen faucets, and the aerated holding ponds waft volatile organic chemicals throughout the neighborhood.

No, thank you. We're following the environmental and medical impacts, but by the time enough long-term data have been collected, Haliburton will be long gone. And we don't need this gas right now; its price is in the pits, there's an oversupply. Half the wells are drilled and capped. For now, Haliburton is exempt from the Clean Water Act. They're wreaking destruction while the sun shines. Later they'll screw all of us with ridiculous gas prices plus hundreds of ruined sites that they'll never have to pay to clean up.

It's fine for them to destroy the local environment around the small country properties and hobby farms that people have saved all their lives for. These people now have green or black water coming out of the kitchen and shower faucets, and when they go outside to garden or walk, the air smells like a chem lab. Their property enjoyment and property values have been destroyed.