The truth about fracking
From
CBS News:
Study finds fracking chemicals didn't pollute water: AP
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, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
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, geologist Richard Hammack said.
Although the results are preliminary -- the study is still ongoing -- they are a boost to a natural gas industry that has fought complaints from environmental groups and property owners who call fracking dangerous.
Fracking is a mature technology -- it is not dangerous. Those people who say it is are looking to inhibit energy exploration and mining. They want to stunt our growth instead of accelerate it. Sad because a rising tide lifts all boats -- the economic growth will help the poor just as much as it helps the rich. Poor people these days have cell phones, television sets, refrigerators, automobiles, etc... This was not the case thirty years ago.
Posted by DaveH at July 19, 2013 2:41 PM