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  • Study finds fracking chemicals didn't pollute water

    07/19/2013 10:28:12 PM PDT · by newzjunkey · 7 replies
    Associated Press ^ | July 19, 2013, 5:41 AM
    A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said... The DOE team will start to publish full results of the tests over the next few months, said Hammack, who called the...