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Personally I'm thrilled. My problem was that you couldn't say no. All the gas company had to do was wave some papers and they could traipse all over your land.

As a guy who lives in NY state I support the ban 100%

 Sienisoturi wrote:
Can somebody please provide me with a reliable source that would state is fracking polluting, or not.

One of the big problems about figuring out whether it's really polluting or not is that (in the USA at least) the companies are not required to reveal the composition of the fluid pumped down into the wells to open up the fractures

If it was just water I would not be too concerned, but it's not it's a massive mix of different chemicals used in different combinations/amounts by different companies with little or no knowledge/research available on how they interact over time both between themselves and with the various chemicals/elements naturally found in the rock (example list of common chemical used https://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used)

In theory these chemicals should not enter the environment as the individual drill holes should be sealed/sleeved and the rocks in which the actual fracturing occurs are supposed to be isolated from the water table, but accidents happen, companies cut corners etc and so at least occasionally (and probably ore often) it will get out into the environment