I didn’t but just to be technically correct, I don’t believe flame came out the faucet, rather water which had methane dissolved in it (like carbon dioxide in a Coke or air in our water after a main break and repair), which methane then ignited when lit by a flame. This happens naturally but was most likely caused by leakage from uncapped shallow formation fracking.

The gas is not toxic even though it is inflammable and can be explosive in the right concentrations.

There are places where hydraulic fracturing should not be done for this reason, including the fact that the idea is to capture the gas, not release it elsewhere.

David for hot and cold running water

“Pretty sure there are no Limerock deposits down there where they’re fracking at, since most fracking takes place 2 – 3 miles deep!”

Actual fracking is fracturing or cracking of rock by high hydraulic pressure.
The fluid includes suspended silica sand to prop the fractures and keep them open so the fluids can flow.
This is done to otherwise impermeable shale, not limestone or dolomite.

Limestone and dolomitic rocks in the Sunniland formation in south Florida around 11,000′ to 12,000′ have produced since 1943.
Most production around here was from carbonate reservoir rocks (think limestone and dolomite).

According to the Oil and Gas Journal, there are some potentially productive oil shales in the Sunniland
http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/vol-110/issue-3/exploration-development/sunniland-shale-an-emerging.html

This is why they are worried, potentially billions of barrels of petroleum recoverable by horizontal drilling and fracking.

It is sealed by evaporites (salt formations from dried up seas from days gone by) but anti-technology types don’t understand and won’t learn.

David for use of Al Gore’s Internet

I’d rather offshore in the Gulf was gotten back to the good old days where it was easy to get a job out there instead of any industrialization of our beautiful Redneck Riviera, myself. Yes, I know, I know, can’t say offshore is any better, but at least it is not right here on the land we live on. But I’ve seen a drilling rig working off the coast of Alabama close enough you could swim to it, & I never heard of any incidents in that area (Alabama, I mean, not the whole Gulf). Arguments can be made against either, but we must produce our own oil & gas, or be at the mercy of OPEC, etc., for all time. Solar panels, windmills & electric cars won’t cut it.

When we take the emotional “feelings” out of a debate we are left with proven scientific results. Oh, and scientific studies are not the hit pieces you may have seen on TV.

I cannot think of any industry that is 100% without any risk wether it be farming, home building for the influx of new Florida residents, manufacturing of most any kind, etc.
Do we want to just stop all nessarly progress that would supply the needs of expanding populations?