Aaaannnd... on top of big bad O&G, we have the homebuilders and real estate developers who knew full well they were building to exhaustion right up O&G's butt, but conveniently failed to disclose to the new home buyer that they had built on an active gas patch.  When the fracking rigs show up, who is the villain?  O&G and mineral rights owners (who's rights may predate the home's construction) or the folks who built on top of those rights/interests and set up home owners for a nasty (and smelly) surprise?  I'm all for more local control over a heavy industrial process, and anything that diminishes the disproportional amount of influence the industry has in the state is an unqualified good; but we also need to address the growing sprawl of development that precipitates these conflicts.