Now I'll be in trouble for this - posting facts gathered in this country, but as I've already posted on another forum and have spoken with some people (both in the company concerned and in the local area concerned) I'll post here as well for my vilification:)
Tracey, have you contacted anyone at the Doe Green site, local residents, parish council, etc? I don't know, but it may be helpful to speak with a council - residents who have experienced test drilling and subsequently gone into production in a less febrile atmosphere. Their actual experience of what went well and what went wrong could be invaluable for you in focusing in on the areas where the drilling company has fallen short and, in the end, achieve a higher standard of safety and industrial probity here.
I had an interesting chat yesterday with the UK's first (and currently only) commercial Coal Bed Methane Extraction site now in production since 2010. Different geology I know, but just in case anyone is actually interested in what the process is really like and what it involves here in the UK (the method used at this site will, I am told by an engineer familiar with our local coal seam geology, be pretty much identical) I'll post the website below with the panels that they have used to communicate with the community at a new site they wish to develop. Strangely - yet unsurprisingly (or strangely unsurprising), no fracking is involved and no water or chemicals are injected into the ground.
www.igas-barton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/igas-panels-irlam.pdf
Page/Panel 18 is particularly interesting.
Please do bear in mind that the above is produced by a Gas (vested interest in making it look good) company trying to communicate clearly and concisely with lay people (all postings of others' opinions and material should come with a health warning telling us where they have come from so that we can take the appropriate amount of salt).
However, it should also be noted that they have a successful production site at Doe Green that has been in operation for near 3 years - anyone heard of Doe Green? nope thought there wouldn't be a rush - if the nightmares promulgated by our anti-fracking friends were based in and on frequent occurrences representing a statistically relevant level of incidence at all sites, then i think we may all have heard of Doe Green by now.