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Sorry New Mexico didn't have reasonable legislative restrictions to frac site choice, construction, or maintenance. I worked for 8 years in the Marcellus and Utica plays in PA, OH and WV, and saw varying degrees of state requirements for containment and reporting.
Solint's complaints are:
The rest of the article was about how renewables are better, and I wholeheartedly agree to that. What I didn't see mentioned in her article? Citing chemical spills on the ground. Citing crude oil releases on the ground. Citing water table pollution.
I believe that we should move away from frac, but not because of the paltry reasons in the article, but because any hydrocarbon usage will continue to harm our climate. We'll see peak oil in the next ten years, and it won't be through lack of sources, but from a shift in need. We can hasten that by insisting that frac sites pay upfront for possible remediation, contain and process all materials that come out of the well, pay sufficiently for freshwater usage, and have liability for costs from cradle to grave. New earth-first legislation would work to make frac unprofitable now, instead of waiting for peak oil and the falling price per barrel of oil to do it for us. So go vote locally and at the state level, because SCOTUS just made it hard for the EPA to enforce its rules at the federal level.
Fracking already is unprofitable now, if we account for the slimy corporate practices used to avoid paying for spent wells to be properly plugged.
Propublica has done a lot of good reporting on this topic, this is just one article of many, but this one explains aforementioned corporate slime quite well https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oil-industrys-slow-death