As Trump vows to boost jobs-boosting oil drilling, fracking foes turn to courts

New York

JANET McIntyre has heard president-elect Donald Trump praise fracking and the jobs it's created. She's living the other side of the story.

For six years, the western Pennsylvania woman and dozens of her neighbours have blamed their tainted groundwater - turned foamy, foul-smelling and undrinkable - on a drilling technique that slams sand, water and chemicals underground at high pressure to unlock oil and natural gas caught in the shale below.