When trying at progress risks other people's lives

Fracking is a quite a controversial subject nowadays. People I know are taking different sides in this story, and both have arguments that could work. But here's where I stand:

1. It has not been proven 100% that fracking pollutes, or so say the ones that promote it or defend it. But has it been proven 100% that it doesn't? If not, don't we have the obligation to check that, BEFORE trying it? Because if it turns out that it does hurt people and if only just one person dies because of it - regardless of how much money is made over it - then it's just wrong.

2. Regardless of whether fracking is dangerous or not, the people who live in the area have the right to decide whether or not it happens. If they believe it's wrong, it shouldn't be done. If you really believe they're wrong, bring arguments, talk to them. Sending the army against a bunch of ordinary people who believe are defending their lives is just wrong.

3. We live in a world where everything that shows up in the media is controlled by the media. Just because there are some scientists out there that say that fracking is harmless, doesn't mean that it is. Sometimes it just means that someone paid those guys a lot of money to say that. Most ordinary people do not understand scientific arguments, so many companies take advantage of that by putting big words in a paper and then calling it fact. Don't take it as truth just because they say it is.

For those of you who are not aware of what's happening, there is a corner of this world where there is a government fighting its own people, in the name of fracking done by foreign company. Regardless of what you think of fracking, that's just wrong: