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UPDATE: What the Frack?

I've got numerous links from our readers over the past couple of days.  It looks like some major outlets are starting to catch on, or in the case of some, continue their fine work on hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and the processes's potentially damaging effects on water. 

Read more at Business Week, Pro Publica and the Scientific American.  And thanks to all of you for the heads up. 

UPDATE: Add these to yesterday's list.  We've got ourselves a frackin' bandwagon. Denver PostInternational Herald Tribune.

Comments

Looks like the guv might be instituting a moratorium on letting these "used" frac fluids loose on our precious AR soil - can you confirm?

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