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I've seen a great many communities regret allowing fracking. We all have. It is an old story already. Water and soil our most precious, essential resources without which our communities would rapidly cease to exist.. The water table is shared throughout the community. Water is funny, it does not abide by the random lines drawn by surveyors. No private landowner can engage in fracking without destroying the water and soil of their neighbor and community. It threatens everyone so that a small few may profit. Allowing this in any form will be another case of privateers running off with profits, while the community is left with the incalculable cost for replacing a service nature was providing for free, just as the tax base crumbles because those able enough will leave this area, and the rest won't have property worth the cost of the ad to sell it.

Looking at housing prices the past few years, the places with the lowest housing prices, where houses sit on the market for years and years are all places which are suffering from the fallout of fracking. No one wants to raise their children or start a farm in those places. They can hardly be called communities anymore. Humans need development and to use our natural resources. Caring for them along the way so that they remain a resource perpetually is just good wisdom or you, in essence, kill your children in order to feed yourself.

We have lived for thousands and thousands of years without fracking, but we have never lived a day without good, clean water and soil.