We all know what happened when the financial system was deregulated. Here is what we laypeople have seen happen since the gas industry was deregulated.
This is a good overview from Dr. Theo Colborn:
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.video.php
more info:
http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/21/#3/1
Propublica is doing a fantastic job covering this. for example:
http://www.propublica.org/feature/pas-gas-wells-booming-but-so-are-spills-127
More;
http://www.youtube.com/user/DivideWatch#p/u
http://www.youtube.com/user/lighthouseservices#p/u/12/gCIGVe6dbMs
http://www.binghamtonsustainability.org/index.php?/test/gas-drilling-education-amp-action/
This technology has come East. If it is oked by New York State for the Southern Tier of the Catskill Mountains, it will poison the water of 5 percent of the population of the country because this area is the water source for the drinking water of New York City as well as the beginning of the Delaware River, which supplies water to people down to Philadelphia. By the way, the Catskills have uranium deposits, so the water afterwards will have radioactive chemicals that cannot be filtered.
See:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/10/watchdog_new_york_state_regulation_of