The Science Is Settled: Fracking Is Safe

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/21/2014 | Jeffrey Folks

[rktman]

Funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University, a team of scientists at Ohio State and other universities conducted extensive research into the purported link between groundwater pollution and fracking. (The full title of the report, available online, is “Noble Gases Identify the Mechanisms of Fugitive Gas Contamination in Drinking-Water Wells Overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales.”) In an examination of 130 wells, the researchers found that, when properly conducted, no groundwater or aquifer pollution resulted from the practice of fracking itself.

[rktman]

"when properly conducted". There's the out that hairy screed needs to accuse the report of being false and probably the work of the evil Koch brothers. Then the sierra club will issue an unbiased report stating that all the NSF, Duke U and other researchers have published are tainted and made up data. They'll also swear that anything they are involved in is "real" and there are no deceptive practices involved. No, really. They swear it's all true and we should all be thankful that they're watching out for us. Pinky swear.

[Crazieman]

Doesn’t matter, they’ve already moved on to earthquakes.

[txrefugee]

Don’t tell that to the lousy Houston Chronicle that is running a story today blaming traffic deaths in TX on tracking!!! Never mind that the oil business is the backbone of the Houston economy, and that this Leftist rag couldn’t stay in business if all the oil-related boom dollars disappeared.

The cretin who wrote this drivel is “a wise Latina,” so we know she’s not worried about keeping her job, no matter how poorly she does it.

[EEGator]

“The Science Is Settled...”

Now we are as foolish as the environmental nut jobs?

[rktman]

I gotta look and see if they are doing any fracking in Napa Valley. Isn’t that where all the auto parts come from for the NAPA stores?

[headstamp 2]

LOL

[Sacajaweau]

NYS just doesn’t believe it....Good ole Cuomo. Betting that certain people are buying up pieces and it’ll come around. Cuomo is getting a lotta frack on this. He’s not ignorant. It’s just getting the money to the right people....like the Indian reservations. They’re all thieves.

[P-Marlowe]

Whenever anyone says “The Science is settled” I know that they don’t know anything about science. If this guy says that it is Settled Science that fracking is safe, then I am pretty much convinced that maybe it isn’t so safe after all.

[RayChuang88]

The thing that could eventually hurt Cuomo is the realizaiont that if fracking is allowed in upper New York state, a LOT of economically depressed towns from Buffalo east along the I-90 corridor all the way to Albany would be booming right now as a huge amount of natural gas is extracted out for home use and for vastly cleaner-burning power plants. And with a switch to natural gas, it also means less dependency on heating oil, which is not exactly a clean way to operate furnaces to heat homes.

[immadashell]

Did I miss something?

[Sacajaweau]

Still so many areas in NYS that are not served by pipelines. But they're big farms and the improvements don't justify the investment.

My brother is up near Oswego (Canton)NY. He heats with oil and it kills him. Big ole farm house besides.

[Spok]

The left is never, ever obstructed by the facts. That’s why they falsify data and threaten their critics.

[17th Miss Regt]

Correction:

Funded by the National Rifle Association, the Koch brothers, several major oil companies, Duke University, and the Zionist cabal of Palestine haters, a team of racists with fascist agendas at Ohio State and other homophobes conducted a quack "study" into the clear and settled science of the link between groundwater pollution and fracking.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 9/21/2014.

Thanks rktman.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University, a team of scientists at Ohio State and other universities conducted extensive research into the purported link between groundwater pollution and fracking.

[rktman]

Holy smokes. 9/21/2014! That’s ancient history now. LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

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