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Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water

Posted by Soulskill on from the it-was-like-that-when-we-found-it dept.

RoccamOccam sends this news from the Associated Press: "A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water."

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  1. Re:What about long term? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And how do YOU know that it would ever change?

    YOU CAN'T.

    Please quit making suppositions solely on feelings.