While it is kind of fashionable to vilify the petroleum industry--and it does deserve some vilification--articles should still get their facts straight. I spotted quite a few technical errors. I will just address one of them.

The company mentioned is not a fracking company. It is an oil company (or "petroleum" or "energy" or however one wants to split hairs).

A fracking company is a contractor who does the fracks for the oil company. Names like Halliburton or Schlumberger are oilfield service companies--and fracking is part of their milieu of things they do for oil companies.

Fracking involves high powered pumping trucks and experienced operators. The oilfield service company charges a fee to the oil company. The oilfield service company is not an owner of any well they just fracked. The oilfield service company can takes its trucks and operators and go work for another oil company the next day.

I could probably spend an hour going through other errors of this article.

I realize that it is not practical to run articles through credible experts before submitting them to Medium. But the petroleum industry likes these articles as they make anti-fracking concerns seem misleading. The result is that we don't get the right kind of fracking regulations that we really should have.