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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. That's even worse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what the hell is being done about keeping your damn hippie drinking water from contaminating my fracking solution??

  2. Re:Sounds iffy by gandhi_2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know, right?

    It is virutally impossible to detect Dihydroxen Monoxide once it gets into the ground water.

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  3. Not possible by onyxruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not possible! The results are politically incorrect and will go against the dogma of 'we must be miserable'. Not to worry, someone will quickly find a way to bury this, spin this or otherwise make this moot. We can't let science speak, that's what we have greenpeace for.

  4. Obvious conclusion. by alexhs · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, they didn't test water pollution, only checked that fracking didn't contaminate water by using markers.
    Hower, other studies showed a correlation between fracking and presence of water pollutants.

    Therefore, the only logical conclusion is: water pollution causes fracking !

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  5. Re:What about long term? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its almost as bad as storing a dangerous explosive gas below ground. Not just a few cubic meters mind you, but millions! I think we should do our best to take these volatile organic compounds from their unregulated and unauthorized locations -- and for the children -- dispose of them in such a way that they will not combust and threaten the lives of our precious innocents!

  6. Re:From a comment on the story - so this is bogus by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're obviously right, they use paragraphs.

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  7. Re:Fire water? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    And suppose the fracking chemicals themselves don't migrate.

    . . . they could be carried by a swallow . . .

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