Years of lax policy making and too many wells being inspected by too few officials means that a massive amount of pollution is being pumped into the wilderness of North Dakota.
The fracking industry likes to call its product "natural gas," but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater.
Rumors erupted last year that Florida would soon open its formerly paradisal lands to the fracking industry, and now, in only the past six months, six oil drilling permit applications have been filed in the relatively population dense area of Collier county.
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