This basically ends while dismissing, literally, the most important part of the discussion: "The long term problems with fracking our therefore, unseeable".

That's literally the pass card for corporations, because as stupid humans we will continue to trudge on ahead until the consequences are initially felt, then irreversible, and finally have impacted us to such an extreme point that finding an alternative is our only choice.

The future implications are absolutely not unforseeable, when you measure the history of human nature, the history of corporate behavior in this country, and the projected negative aspects of the process. It's a pretty clear-cut formula for understanding exactly what's going to happen.

Interesting. I took the final statement to mean "the total amount of damage is unforeseeable"

Also, after watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica lately, this video is almost a non-stop laugh factory.

There's also some evidence to suggest that fracking can produce induced seismicity. It's one of the reasons why lots of people in NZ are opposed to it (what with the country still recovering from earthquakes)

Frick'n fracking!

Gotta charge my Gameboy classic!

Groundwater contamination is the worst that's happening with this process since seismic anomalies created by the same will most likely be isolated and easily blamed on nature-Fracking is pretty frikkin' whack, it seems akin to the gold mining industry returning to 1890s technology to uncover the juice.

It's true at both the macro and micro level. That's what mid-life crisis is allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll about.

Agreed that the contamination is the worst part, the earthquakes are merely yet another potential hazard.

So far, the science is still at a reasonably early stage, but there is certainly some evidence to suggest that earthquakes in previously non-seismically active areas have been caused (or at the very least worsened) by fracking.

Fracking Cylons...