Posted on 09/16/2014 1:43:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to contaminate drinking water at a site in western Pennsylvania.
The Department of Energy report, released Monday, was the first time an energy company allowed independent monitoring of a drilling site during the fracking process and for 18 months afterward. After those months of monitoring, researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas stayed about 5,000 feet below drinking water supplies.
Scientists used tracer fluids, seismic monitoring, and other tests to look for problems, and created the most detailed public report to date about how fracking affects adjacent rock structures. …
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Duh..It’s been going on for 60 years. Like everything else, we’re getting better at it.
What, fracking chems don’t waft upward through thousands of feet of rock like smoke from a capitalist’s chimney?
You think all that nasty Oil and Gas would have already contaminated the water ,it’s been down there forever
“But it causes earthquakes.”
No wait, ‘Global Warming’ causes earthquakes. No, fracking did ......
/very confused anti-frackers
Tell it to this guy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531083/Dakota-man-discovers-tap-water-flammable.html
Any contamination is the result of a leak in a holding pond, a tanker, or a transport line.
Pre-existing conditions not covered. Lots of wells already have flammable gases; the fracking didn’t cause it.
There have been recorded incidents of flammable gasses in water lines for over a hundred years. Mostly naturally occurring methane.
They’re replacing the holding pond technology with a recycling and cleansing system...kinda like a wastewater treatment plant. One of the beefs is the amount of water used so there’s a double benefit.
Bingo.
We have a famous burning spring nearby. Someone posted a picture of it when flamed. Awesome!! I believe one nearby town harnessed it and lit their town with it.
Jes’ like global warming is a fact. Leonardo Dicaprio said it and he's in lotsa movies!
‘Member, if a movie star says it, it must be true. Movie stars are more important people than you or me!
Vote Democrat! VIva los illegals! Help end civilization now, send AL Gore some money.”
Well, that just stinks...
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