[Vaquero]

we wouldnt want the zer0bama imperative of destroying America, to slow down just because of an impending election now do we???

[Erik Latranyi]

This release by the EPA was red meat for the enviro-whackos to distract them from other disappointments with the Obama Administration.

They are running around now using terms like “smoking gun” and “proof positive” that hydraulic fracturing is unsafe.

They don’t care that they will have egg on their face when the FACTS come out.

[combat_boots]

My moonbat SIL has been told that fracking causes earthquakes. She believes this.

[IbJensen]

Turn off the alarm on ‘fracking’ and flush the EPA along with other equally harmful agencies of the central socialist government.

[mountainlion]

The EPA is unsafe for children and other living things.

[ClearCase_guy]

The American energy sector is reviving and filling people with hope! Quick --

Kill it! Kill it with fire!!

[P-Marlowe]

The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that chemicals from "fracking," a controversial method of extracting natural gas from the ground, have polluted groundwater in Wyoming.

This very well might be true, but since the information is coming from the EPA, I have to assume they are lying.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Just another excuse to keep Government’s heel on the throat of our freedoms and energy independence. Can’t have the peasants gaining access to a roaring economy and cheap energy - the reduces the need for Big Government in their lives.

[Baynative]

"We've done extensive testing, the state has done extensive testing, and never have we found the effects of oil and gas in these drinking water wells," Hock said. "The EPA, however, is worried that this may change."

Ahh, the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE - Agenda 21 rears its ugly head!

[faucetman]

I live in a hysterical anti-fracking area. Many local towns have voted in anti fracking legislation. “NO FRACKING” signs are everywhere. It's a liberal “cause celebre”.

There is NO EVIDENCE that fracking pollutes water wells. NONE! The real issue is the disposal of the WATER used because of the “salt” it brings back up, not the fracking chemicals. This is easily dealt with and reputable companies automatically do this.

[ThunderSleeps]

Two facts stand out:

...which has long been claimed by environmental activists...

...the state has done extensive testing, and never have we found the effects of oil and gas in these drinking water wells,"

In other words, there are wild unsubstantiated claims, and then there are verifiable, reproducible test results. Which side do you think the EPA and MSM focuses on? I'll give you three guesses...nah, you'll only need one.

[oldplayer]

“We have done extensive testing, the state has done extensive testing and the SUN HAS COME UP EVERY MORNING. The EPA, however, is worried that this will change.”

There, fixed it.

Oldplayer

[txrefugee]

This is just another power play by the Left to shut down energy production in the USA. The EPA has polluted more ground water than fracking ever will by forcing the oil companies to add a carcinogen, MTBE, to gasoline to “reduce air pollution.”

Gas stations all over the US had to dig up their storage tanks at great expense, after it became evident that EPA-mandated MTBE was leaking into the water table. These ignorant “experts” are dangerous, as virtually all government bureaucrats with power are.

[AceMineral]

There is a lot of frakking going on in Shreveport. You can frak all you want.

[SC_Pete]

The next administration should frack the EPA.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It doesn’t take much to “alarm” a bunch of pot smoking hippy freaks.

[trebb]

"We've done extensive testing, the state has done extensive testing, and never have we found the effects of oil and gas in these drinking water wells," Hock said. The EPA, however, is worried that this may change.

The EPA should listen to Mark Twain's advice, "Worry is like making advance payment on something you're not likely to get in the first place."

Of course that assumes the EPA is more worried about pollution than control.

[denydenydeny]

"At a depth where you would expect to find hydrocarbons, they found hydrocarbons. In drinking wells, they found no impacts due to oil and gas," he said.

Doesn't matter. The purpose is to create headlines like this one.

[Chgogal]

What say you?

[SES1066]

The very name of this agency, “Environmental Protection Agency” (EPA) leads to these excesses. A perfect environment is one without civilization and to the “Perfect Environmentalist” this is the ideal.

When the EPA got started in 1970, we had recent dealings with dangerous chemical damages like the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and such. The incentives to have the EPA were self evident in the smog and polluted waters of our land.

What we forget is that no government agency has an off switch. When one problem is brought under control, the imperative is to find something else to justify continuing operations. No one in 1970 could have predicted that in 40 years this same agency would declare carbon dioxide a subject of regulation.