Have you seen the movie gasland? They refute alot of things you just said. With nice video interviews of house after house of people who can no longer drink their own water due to fracking which was just recently deregulated. Also, if its not a big deal why not let the EPA have oversight on the matter? Why did a loophole in the EPA's responsibility get put in there so that if they drill for natural gas & frac... then the EPA has no business testing water quality in the area? I mean if its so far away... Why not let the EPA test drinking water. Drilling for natural gas has been going on a long time. Most of it has been done no where near cities & homes. Now that gas prices have gone up and the law has changed its not economically viable to invade neighborhoods and towns. Nobody cares about some water in the middle of nowhere being contaminated. But when it gets closer to home and can ruin and entire watershed thats something to worry about.