Monday, November 14, 2011
Environment New evidence of fracking dangers
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Another piece of evidence is in that suggests it's best not to take gas industry assurances about environmental risks of fracking with a grain of salt. From ProPublica:
As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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