Drilling and fracking shale to produce natural gas, or shale gas, result in local air pollution problems, 2 degrade water quality in rivers and streams 3 and create short-and long-term risks to underground sources of drinking water. 4 In part because of such environmental impacts, communities with shale gas development can be made worse off as the boom-and-bust cycle of extraction runs its course. 5 More pipelines simply mean more environmental and public health problems for these local communities. 36 Food & Water Watch. "U.S. energy insecurity: why drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas is a false solution." November 2012 at 15 to 16. 37 Ibid. at 13.

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