Fracking, Water Quality, and Health

water_fall_stream“Water Pollution Not from Fracking, It Seems — Neither are ‘Health’ Effects,” By American Council on Science and Health.news_views_icon
This week’s New York Times has a report from a group based at Ohio State University which found that water contamination by methane and other hydrocarbons, even in areas where hydraulic fracturing of shale and horizontal drilling — the technologies known as “fracking” — is occurring is not the result of the process itself, but rather from well leaks. Read more.

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