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Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water
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."
Which is just as big a f@#$ing problem as the fracking fluids! I have always thought they lost the thread on this thing by focusing on the fracking fluids, the energy industries Wookie in this case. CLEARLY the problem is natural gas in the drinking water! I could give a shit about the fracking fluid when there is a far more clear and present danger in the natural gas itself. To think that you can crack the substrate and still have control over where the natural gas goes just shows a level of malignant idiocy that ought to disqualify all these ass hats from whatever certification they claim to have.
And how do I know you're anything but a shill for the fabulous frackers, AC man or woman or just plain shill? You do know that tests for water generally show a laundry list of carcinogens which are never found in those amounts in non-fracking areas, right? Shill away, AC.
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair" - George Washington
"Six independent studies have proven that fracking doesn't harm the environment or people one bit" - Fracking Institute of America
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