What's the problem? fear of diminished water quality?
An understatement, but yes. As in, tap water that lights on fire and makes people physically ill, and ecosystems dying because they're being choked by natural gas.
There's no "safe fracking," and the PR company hired to make the argument that there is, is the exact same PR company the tobacco companies hired years ago to argue nicotine isn't addictive and cigarettes don't cause cancer. The science shows they're wrong, but they have a pretty strong propaganda system in place at the moment to, unfortunately, cause enough doubt.
No, I haven't seen gasland.
What ecosystems? Like ponds or a small lake?
It's interesting to see a 'relatively' dem area like upstate NY get completely trampled by the big city machine. Personally I'd prefer to see drilling in ANWR, on the Atlantic/Pacific shelfs and harvest the oil shale in the unpopulated plain/mountain states before fracking in a populated area like upstate NY. I mean providing/preventing the destruction of: a good water supply is an appropriate/ necessary(especially in the latter as 'preventing destruction' falls under protecting private property) role of government.
In my hometown, they aren't allowed to use perfectly good (actually some of the best water on earth) water because the EPA arbitrarily bumped down the safe radon number from like 8 parts per billion to 4 parts per billion with zero evidence to support such a move. So, in both cases you have democrats destroying water supplies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMATBun0_hY beautiful.