So here's what the media won't tell you. Yes they do use chemicals for fracking(anti corrosives/lubricants) but for the most part it's just sand and water. Areas where the wells are deep like the haynesville shale and barnette are pretty much safe since they're literally miles beneath the water table. The only time you have problems with the water table getting infiltrated by by oil/chemicals in deep shale areas is when the drilling company tries to save a nickle and does a half assed cement job...which I've seen (same thing that happened on deep water horizon).
“What THE *MEDIA* won’t tell[us]”?
You mean, what the FRACKING INDUSTRY WON’T TELL *ANYONE*…but sure, blame the media for your industry’s consistent stonewalling, that makes sense!
”It’s just sand and water!” The inconsequential remainder is a trade secret…meaning, revelation would lead to legislation to stop pumping anonymous shit into the earth. Perfectly understandable - industry has been ignoring public (and worker) safety for its entire existence; that one fact is why we have OSHA, for one thing, and the EPA (Nixon’s joint, you remember, right?).
Personally, I expect that eventually those non-sand/non-water injectables will be identified, the industry will be found to have deliberately avoided oversight, and be forced to cease operations in order to perform environmental impact studies. I further expect that the industry has NO interest in anything beyond fracking as much as possible, in as many places as possible, just as fast as is possible...BECAUSE they anticipate being shut down entirely once the facts come out. Have no doubt that for every company adhering to the industry’s preferred behaviors, there’s another company cutting even those corners, making even more questionable calls, doing even more damage…and because it all goes on out of sight (underground) they can bullshit their way through for quite a while…as long as they have “Republicans” and other industries running interference for them, eliminating oversight and regulation, pulling the teeth of such regulations as they will permit, and generally acting like piracy is good business.
This all may seem like an attack on you, but I assure you, it’s not: industry’s general character and reputation precedes you by centuries; compared to misleading Congress, the states, and the public, misleading theor in-house professionals & field workers is simple - baked in, in fact.
Thanks for your input.