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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."

2 of 237 comments (clear)

  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.

  2. Re:Sounds iffy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's dissolved Methane gas you fucking moron, and in most if not ALL places the fucking water did that before they dropped the first damn drill hole much less did any fracking.