Everybody's opinion is a product of his/her personal situation and experiences. Here's mine.
I have lived my whole life in a rural area where various natural resources were/are available. In the 19th century, the forests were clearcut resulting in lost soil and streams/rivers full of siltation and millionaire lumber company owners.
In the early 20th century, coal was deep mined resulting in exploitation of the area and people and.... millionaire coal company owners. Children as young as 12 were forced into laboring for the mining companies. My coalminer grandfather died a most insidious slow suffocation death over several years' time due to silicosis. The streams and peoples' wells still run red with acid mine drainage.
In the later 20th century, strip mining came into vogue resulting in thousands of square miles of ravaged topography that can no longer absorb rainfall.... and millionaire mining company owners.
As the 21st century started, the ridgetops began being commandeered for the erection of wind turbines. Vast acreage was taken out of any other possible use, the produced electricity wired to urban areas hundreds of miles away and....the owners became millionaires.
Now, hundreds of marcelus shale gas drilling companies are swooping into the area to, once again, exploit the local resources and people and....become millionaires. Coincidental to the fracking process, aquifers have become either polluted or drained, personal wells have become polluted, forests have been leveled and the depletion of waterways is now threatened in order to supply enough water for the fracking.
After living a lifetime of having my world exploited by fatcats, being expected to endure loses, pay for somebody else's life of luxury, sacrifice land and drinking water and lifestyle to have the resources shipped, trucked, and transported to urban areas, do I really need to tell you what my attitude is regarding energy production as it stands today?
Go ahead; rip away. But live in my shoes for 60 years first.
