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In the US that’s not entirely true. Subsoil rights belong to the landowner, not the state, so the money has flowed into the local communities and has bought a degree of acceptance.
In the UK people are super against it but it hasn’t really happened yet at any scale. They’re against what they think has happened in the US, and against anything that isn’t renewable. I don’t think that’s an entirely reasonable position, although I have a lot of sympathy for it.
I’m not pro-fracking, for the record. I’m agnostic to be honest - I’d like to see us deploy more renewables, but the technology isn’t ready yet to displace all our fossil fuel needs. And if we need to rely on fossils for a while longer, I’d rather we burnt gas than coal or oil - it’s much less polluting. If fracking can be done safely and cleanly and stops us burning dirtier shit, then I think as a stopgap it works.
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Fracking certainly isn't the answer. The people that have to live in these fracked places are super against it but it's being forced upon them anyway.