Buffer Zones For Fracking But Not for Storage!

This is really just an additional thought on my earlier piece about the storage of LP an/or Methane Gas in salt caverns under Seneca Lake. The main point of that piece was to try to wrap my head around the logic or lack of it in believing or thinking that it makes sense to store gas in caverns that are part of an evolving environment under a beautiful body of fresh water. As I continued to think about it, I came up with some other somewhat confusing pieces of information.

Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) has been a separate but also controversial issue throughout the Finger Lakes region. Again, there are arguments on both sides, that sight the dangers or benefits of the process. Academics, engineers and health professionals have all weighed in and continue to do so. The debate has forced politicians and elected officials to take positions of some sort. Everyone seems to agree that the protection of large water sources like the Finger Lakes themselves need some level of protection. Most politicians have taken the position that a buffer zone of some sort should exist around the Finger Lakes. People argue over what the distance should be. I've heard some say a half mile and others a mile and so forth. Don't these discussions point out the illogical concept of storage in natural caverns under Seneca Lake? Why would you create a buffer zone around a lake of let's say a half mile to protect that water from Fracking and then support the storage of gas under that same body of water? Some things just don't make sense.