I can only presume you are drinking a bit too early 
Come on, you know what I mean. Sitting on the fence when all around you is getting destroyed is akin to an ostrich burying itās head in the sand. Pretty good allegory is you ask me :-D.
So we have to make decisions based on what ? because I donāt see much that makes me think we know anything about this subject really. But we have now to make a decision on the flimsiest bits of evidence. Not very scientific but definitely how environmentalists seem to carry on.
Sometimes itās nice up here on the fence - you get a better view, time to absorb whatās going on around you without getting caught up in the flurry of unguided (and often uninformed) frenzied arguments and action that could, once more information is known, be totally the wrong thing to have done.
Come on Mark, hop up here and have a ponder before you make decisions based on limited facts ;-)
Absolutely - theyāve made so many incorrect predictions and statements, you would theyād learn but no, off they go again!
But you are missing the point. Fracking IS being carried out so the fracking companies have made their decision already. They are hell bent on using fracking and to hell with the consequences. You can sit on the fence and wait to see the results and if catastrophic you can gloat that it was wrong to use it after all.
The water brought in is mixed with sand and chemicals to create fracking fluid. Approximately 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing.
Fracking Fluid
Up to 600 chemicals are used in fracking fluid, including known carcinogens and toxins such asā¦ lead, uranium, mercury, ethylene glycol, radium, methanol, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde.
US Gas Wells need
72 trillion gallons of water
and 360 billion gallons of chemicals
Only 30-50% of the fracturing fluid is recovered, the rest of the toxic fluid is left in the ground and is not biodegradable.
I will continue to desist from decision making when I know I donāt have all the facts - Iāll leave that to the knee-jerkers.
Lead - you donāt give concentrations so Iāve looked up the closest I can think of to this: http://www.water.org.uk/static/files_archive/1Lead_-_Water_UK.pdf
I canāt be bothered to answer each one in detail but I will say that lead, uranium, mercury, ethylene glycol, radium, methanol, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde are already in use in various manufacturing processes and we are already exposed to many of those elements because they occur naturally. I donāt imagine that the industries will deliberately poison people - why would they? They would soon go out of business if that proved to be the case and who would hire them after that? It would be professional suicide to be so careless.
Only 30-50% of the fracturing fluid is recovered, the rest of the toxic fluid is left in the ground and is not biodegradable.
But those elements come from the ground anyway and already occur naturally in rivers and the sea.
As I have said, I am not an expert and Iām not in a position to make informed decisions about whether these companies will handle this professionally or not.
However, I have no desire to turn into a āChicken Littleā and run around proclaiming that the sky is about to fall in!
Iām with you on this one we need to know more and we may need to try it out to see if it works because things rarely seem to work in life like they do on paper.
It is no wonder we are against most of these projects!
If you live in the USA, and they find something under your land, it belongs to you, but over here the rich purloin the profits.
Good point Wrinkly - I wonder how many people would refuse, say, Ā£2m to have that going on near them?
No-one! They would accept it and bugger off to pastures new now wouldnāt they - if they had any sense anyways ;-):-D.
I see that on one thing - weāre on the same wavelength ;-)
Karen darlinā I think I.o.M is geologically speaking predominantly Igneous rock like Granite. Here in the South East, (Balcombe) we are living on the top of chalk. As a consequence the water aquafiers extract water straight from the chalk. If Fracking allows all those poisonous chemicals into the chalk and it seeps into the aquafiers then we could be drinking poisoned water - hence one of the limbs of my own opposition to āFrackingā per se.
What a fracking mess.
The protesters claim the government arenāt listening, they never do. The arrest of Caroline Lucas MP and others was inevitable.
Especially as she refused to do what the police told her to, nothing invites arrest as quickly as that on a protest, well that and knocking a policemanās hat off 
From what I saw on the news, the protest wasnāt particularly peaceful and law-abiding and they openly stated (the protesters) that they are going to up their game to prevent drilling; so if arrests happened, they only have themselves to blame - even some of the locals said they didnāt mind the protest if it remained a peaceful one but it didnāt so some of the locals declined to support the protesters.