It's the same issue in the Alberta tar sands -- turning pure water to toxic water on a massive scale. The difference is that in Canada, it is already happening with the help of government tax breaks.

The people should leave or at least learn to live without water. We need that oil. There is enough there to keep cars polluting the environment, while driving to the old shale mine and the destroyed environment around it, for a few more years - and the people will pay a fortune for the petrol if we time the price rise with the release of the new engines we've sold the plans of.