THEY LEAK!
They leak a lot. They leak into the air and they leak into the water. Fracking wells break the laws of the Clean Air Act and The Clean Water Act. The petroleum industry was given a lot of freedom from important laws in the 2005 (the year of Peak Oil) Cheney Energy Bill.
If the country INSISTS on drilling for natural gas it must be done without ANY leaks and through safe pipelines that need repair and replacement.
Energy companies are lavished with new pipelines for the sake of jobs. There aren’t that many jobs in a pipeline. A couple of thousand on long pipelines. There are more jobs created in repairing and replacing existing pipelines. First the old stuff has to come out and then the new pipe gets laid. It is like a double fit for each pipeline replaced and/or repaired.
Additionally, the pipelines to cities and homes are never replaced and gas explosions happen. I am sure the occasional deaths are figured into the companies costs.
Fracking and pipelines must be heavily regulated to prevent methane into Earth’s atmospheres. The 2005 Cheney Energy Bill needs to be repealed and replaced when taking the climate crisis seriously. There needs to be a national emergency for climate in the USA to rip the corrupt laws out by the roots.
