Posted on 06/05/2015 6:32:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Finally, the Environmental Protection Agency has admitted what the oil and natural gas industry has been saying for more than 60 years: “Hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts to drinking water sources.”
EPA’s five-year-long study, requested by Congress, examined more than 950 pieces of information, including published papers and technical reports. While finding “potential vulnerabilities, some of which are not unique to hydraulic fracturing,” the report basically pronounces fracking safe.
This conclusion should not be a surprise. In 2011, then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told a congressional panel there has been no evidence linking fracking operations to groundwater contamination.
Still, there is something for everyone in EPA’s politically sensitive report (this is Obama’s agency, after all), allowing detractors to seize on what could occur, rather than fracking’s strong safety record....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
No Cueball is all in for casinos. Until he isn’t.
Wait, is this a trick?
Saw the report on TV and they immediately switched to some dimwit who stated that some doctor in Pa. did a study that said that babies were born underweight when the mother was pregnant in an area where fracking was taking place.
In a rushed qualification, before they quickly exited, they quoted the doctor as stating that there was not direct link and it could just be a normal aberration or caused by something else .... in other words, it was not significant.
Guess which will be on all the news shortly .... fracking kills babies!!!!
I heard about this. Great news.
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