My fiance and I are building a home up in Collier's Hill and are really excited to move in next month. We had some questions about the fracking activity up there though. There appear to be towers that are (temporarily?) constructed in the neighborhood from time to time. I'm curious what the logic was behind the decision to develop this area for residential use, but still allow the fracking operators to retain their rights to operate commercially within close proximity of the homes there? 

The only thing that makes sense to me is that the wells were already there and making money, so in order to shut them down it would have cost CDG a huge amount of money to pay the fracking operators for those rights. So, rather than pay that to shut them down, CDG purchased the land for less and let the fracking operators retain mineral rights. Normally this isn't a huge issue when you just have some small tanks in the ground, but these huge towers are absolute eyesores and the heavy crane trucks are noisy and tear up the roads.