Posted on 05/31/2018 6:53:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A recent media report on a peer-reviewed study based on 180 samples from water wells near Ohio fracking sites was headlined: “Univ. of Cincy fracking study finds surprising groundwater results.”
What exactly was so surprising?
The report is one of more than two dozen scientific studies published since 2010 that concluded fracking is not a major threat to groundwater. No fewer than 10 peer-reviewed studies examining more than 3,000 water wells across virtually every major U.S. shale play have been released in the past five years, with each one finding no evidence of that fracking has contaminated groundwater.
The reason? As the EPA’s landmark, six-year study on the subject concluded in 2016, “[H]ydraulic fracturing operations are unlikely to generate sufficient pressure to drive fluids into shallow drinking water zones,” due to the fact that the process typically occurs a mile or more below the surface.
To put this another way, even though the claim that fracking contaminates groundwater continues to be a cornerstone of the “Keep It in the Ground” movement’s unrelenting campaign to undermine American energy production, there is simply no credible scientific evidence to support that claim.
The University of Cincinnati report states plainly that researchers “found no increase in methane concentration or composition in groundwater over the four years of the study, despite the presence of new shale gas wells drilled in the study area.” And this took place at a time when drilling surged: When the study period began in 2012, there were 115 drilling permits in the region. By the end of the study period, in 2015, there were more than 1,600 permits.
Basically, there wasn’t a shred of evidence that fracking contaminated water.
This was the complete opposite of what the researchers hypothesized, but to their credit,
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Hey! Sierra weenies!
Who is a science denier, now?
60+yrs of real-world examples wasn’t enough...need just ONE more ‘study’? *SMH*
Not like Leftists have to ‘pay’ for their willful ignorance (ala millions dead vs. DDT vs. “Silent Spring”)
That’s worthless science. U of Cincy just lost their funding.
Kind of like reporting that global temperatures have not risen dramatically in the last 100 years.
Worthless. As in, no government will keep funding that.
Unfortunately actual facts don’t mean anything to the zealots.
“Science is bunk.”
Well, now that depends. First of all, what is “science”? For sure, not a religion, though some treat the discipline as such. There is not, and never can be, any such thing as “settled science”, especially when, as in most instances, not even all the parameters are known, and the first working hypotheses are based largely on guessswork, many of which have proven to be so far off the mark as to be fairy tales or worse. Then, pursuit of “logic” can lead to some pretty convoluted mathematics, some of which cannot ever by made to conform to the real world. Consider “geocentric” models of the makeup of the Universe, the mathematics for computing orbits and projecting celestial events gets much too complicated to ever be solved.
Science often proves to be one b!+c# kitty. Especially when using the same theorems over and over, expecting a different result the next time.
bkmk
Hey, hey, hey, now. It’s only “science” if it agrees with their “feeling” of how thing should be.
I recall seeing Andrea Tantaros on The Five on FNC one day drinking half a wine glass full of fracking fluid to prove it was not harmful to anyone.
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