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What are the environmental and safety concerns with fracking that are not allowing for it to progress?

So recently I read in the news that America actually possesses a lot of oil. But because it's not in large pools underground which makes oil easy to obtain, it's actually spread across rocks and other debris underground. So to get access the oil its has to be separated by chemicals, and if it's successful America could become self sufficient on its on oil. So why are we not fracking? 

Sorry if my information isn't absolutely accurate, I only have the general idea of the process.
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>So why are we not fracking?

We are fracking. A lot. There's been a huge fracking boom in the US, especially in Pennsylvania and Ohio. From what I've seen, the major problem is that the technology and business have moved much faster than government regulators. The injection wells can be made to be strong enough to not leak into the groundwater, but there are a few cases where oil/gas companies cut corners. There have also been a lot of surface spills of the fracking chemicals. On a fracking site, there are large tanks of chemicals, and due to poor regulations and cost-cutting businesses, they can leak into surface water much more easily than the chemicals that are actually injected.

Finally, unlike traditional drilling, fracking is performed on a smaller, more distributed scale. This means that it is often done in residential areas where people live. In order to frack, you need to have a lot of trucks delivering water/chemicals and constructing the well. This creates a lot of noise and air pollution in residential areas.