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by smarm52 753 days ago
> How close is too close to live to a large fracking operation?

Yes.

As you can imagine there's not a lot of work on that, since that's a very profitable industry with a lot of reach. But here's something:

Meng, Q. (2015). Spatial analysis of environment and population at risk of natural gas fracking in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. Science of the Total Environment, 515, 198-206.

> The high, moderate, and low risk levels are defined according to distances less than 1 km, 1 to 2 km, and 2 to 3 km to fracking wells.

The sciencedirect article is abridged, but scihub has a copy.

Then you might want to check through the papers that cite it:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1835293133068512810...

But these stood out:

Meng, Q. (2017). The impacts of fracking on the environment: A total environmental study paradigm. Science of the Total Environment, 580, 953-957.

Chowkwanyun, M. (2023). Environmental justice: where it has been, and where it might be going. Annual Review of Public Health, 44, 93-111.

Lu, H., Kang, Y., Liu, L., & Li, J. (2019). Comprehensive groundwater safety assessment under potential shale gas contamination based on integrated analysis of reliability–resilience–vulnerability and gas migration index. Journal of Hydrology, 578, 124072.