Posted on 03/30/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by george76
This afternoon, Fact Check.org produced a fact-check that ostensibly criticizes U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) for his contention that there has never been an instance of ground water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing. Of course, this piece isn’t really about Inhofe at all; but before we get into that, we can’t help but wonder why they are fact-checking Inhofe and not former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson … or Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz … or Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell — all of whom have said exactly the same thing.
Rather than a “fact-check,” it reads more like an advocacy piece making the case for the Obama Administration’s decision to impose onerous new federal rules on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, which will inevitably stifle oil and gas production. Unfortunately, to make its case, FactCheck.org uses questionable or even dubious “facts,” and fails to disclose important facts about an activist who is cited extensively.
Relies heavily on anti-fracking activist Anthony Ingraffea
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Relies heavily on discredited Duke studies
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Jackson is one of the Duke University researchers who published studies in 2010 and 2013, both of which contained a number of flaws (several conceded by the authors). These flaws include a lack of baseline data, the decision not to randomly sample wells, and the presence of high levels of methane in water wells that were nowhere near natural gas drilling.
Just this week, a new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Syracuse University was published that discredits the Duke researchers’ findings – and it does so by using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baseline samples.
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Ignores government determinations that hydraulic fracturing is safe .
Advocating for Obama administration regulations
(Excerpt) Read more at energyindepth.org ...
I thought that the only instance of ground water contamination by fracking chemicals was deliberately done by an environmental activist hell-bent on destroying the practice. IIRC, he bought some chemicals and deliberately contaminated the ground water..........................
IIRC, there have been surface spills that were a contamination of surface water drinking supply.
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That is correct. They also had to pay for the clean up and lost their ass financially. That works for me.
Actually the contaminant is kcl salt. The rest of the fluid is sand and surfactants also known as soap.
And there have been cases where water wells have been completed in or through coal beds that have methane sorbed on the coal particles and held in place by the hydrostatic head of water. When water is pumped, the hydraulic head is lowered and gas moves into the water stream. It is convenient for activists to blame this on nearby deeper gas wells or fracking when in fact the gas would be released with water pumping in any event and fracking is not the cause.
Yes, methane in the water in some areas goes back far before the Natural Gas production and drilling; long before hydraulic fracturing.
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