What are your thoughts on the "major second wave" of US fracking?

These days, as long as it pisses leftist cockroaches off, I'm all for it. Everything is exaggerrated . There are always environmental c0nsequences to things like "fracking" and "horizontal drilling", but everyone exaggerates the consequences or the lack thereof to support their narrative. Why is it considered okay to pay China, Brazil, or Mexico to rape mother earth in lieu of doing a better job ourselves. We have the technology to minimize environmental damage more so than China, Brazil, or Mexico, yet we somehow think we are being the 'good guys' if we just hire someone else to rape the earth for us.

Say what you will, for or against, but it's a necessity.
There will always be equally convincing arguments for either side of the debate, but it doesn't change the fact that we need the oil industry if we want to continue living in the world we live in.
I am not particularly willing to give up the heat in my home, or the fuel in my vehicle, or the groceries that are brought to my local grocer (by truck) or the iPad I'm using at this very moment to write this reply. Most of my typical days' activities are made possible because of the oil industry.
We, as a people, seem to have grown an affinity to our creature comforts.

And I don't see too many others running out to buy axes and chop wood for their wood stoves, to heat the home and cook their meals.

Let's see, with in a 50 mile radius of my home there have been eight well head explosions since 2013. That's not counting the ruptured pipelines, accidents from heavy well traffic plus the damage to our roads. Add to that most of the workers are from out of state so there is little income to the local governments due to them not being property owners a second wave here? Sorry, lets see the frackers get their acts together first.

Who gives a frack. Nowhere in the world has there been more fracking going on in the last fifty years than where I live. There’s no sinkholes no earthquakes. If you’re gonna drill an oil well. You’re gonna frack it. That’s how you do it. Do you want cheap gas for your car or not? Do you want cheap natural gas to heat your home or not. There’s always a wood stove I guess. You can get you a horse and buggy I guess.

Just one more thing for the fearmongers and defeatists to freak out about.

While I’m generally for less government and less regulations I’m not sure about fracking. I’ve seen some pretty compelling information about the damages it does to the environment, and the risk that it poses to local communities. I still don’t necessarily want federal government intervention but I do wish that local communities were given more education and chances to vote on it before it is allowed in a specific area.

There have been more recorded earthquakes than ever measured in Oklahoma, and most fingers point to fracking. It's also a brilliant way to cheat people out of resources they're sitting on.

A second wave of tremors , and sinkholes where they normally don't happen, and a second wave of complaints of contaminated wells,

Is fracking a word?

Would be good