[joe_the_user]

Well...

I'm more a corporate hater than a corporation lover.

But while the downside of tar sands are real and horrific, the downsides of fracking so far seem speculative. I haven't heard any strong argument why North Dakota fracking would have the same effect as the fracking described in Gas Lands.

If anything, fracking seems possibly scary but not something with clear, proven downsides. It may be, for example, that pipelines carrying oil extracted using fracking and that could cause damage somewhere and that does more damage than the actual fracking.

If anyone has a reference to prove me wrong, I'd love to see it (well, maybe not love but appreciate it).