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Refuses?? They spent a ton of money and time trying to find 'evidence' that simply did not exist. Seriously, you are not going to win this because fracking, a practice which has been around for over 40 years, does not cause groundwater contamination. When the most aggressive EPA in modern times desperately wanted to find evidence and was not able to do so, that should have been a sign for you.
Methane can occur naturally in the area (that’s what draws frackers there). But the researchers’ study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that levels of the gas were far higher in drinking water wells located close to fracking operations than in other areas.
I've given the evidence and even though it's there in black and white, supported by the EPA, you continue to choose to ignore it. This is your personal issue for you to work out because the EPA - they've already found out what I've shown - that fracking does not contaminate groundwater.
Did you read the article I cited? I ask because your examples was where the EPA tried to find groundwater contamination and was unable. So, again - even the EPA, no matter how much they want it to be true, cannot find that fracking contaminates groundwater.
ETA: Hey, look at it this way, the Hollywood celebrities - most of whom couldn't pass a high school chemistry course - say fracking is bad so CLEARLY it must be.
I dont know about groundwater, but I do know that here in Texas, the fracking process uses a whole hell of a lot of sweet water to frack...water Texans need for irrigation, manufacturing, and potable consumption...
I you can point me to any link that shows that we can reclaim contaminated sweet water for our daily use...Im on board 100%.
I dont know how the water issues are in SC, but down here in Texas we don't have an unlimited supply.
I've given the evidence and even though it's there in black and white, supported by the EPA, you continue to choose to ignore it. This is your personal issue for you to work out because the EPA - they've already found out what I've shown - that fracking does not contaminate groundwater.
And I have supplied studies to the contrary. You only want to believe what you want to believe. Did you once believe that there was no link to smoking and lung cancer also?
Here is what was also found:
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The two simplest explanations for the higher dissolved gas concentrations that we observed in drinking water are (i) faulty or inadequate steel casings, which are designed to keep the gas and any water inside the well from leaking into the environment, and (ii) imperfections in the cement sealing of the annulus or gaps between casings and rock that keep fluids from moving up the outside of the well.
In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued 90 violations for faulty casing and cementing on 64 Marcellus shale gas wells; 119 similar violations were issued in 2011.
I dont know about groundwater, but I do know that here in Texas, the fracking process uses a whole hell of a lot of sweet water to frack...water Texans need for irrigation, manufacturing, and potable consumption...
I you can point me to any link that shows that we can reclaim contaminated sweet water for our daily use...Im on board 100%.
I dont know how the water issues are in SC, but down here in Texas we don't have an unlimited supply.
Most of the water used is brackish water.... Non potable water here in Texas..
Fracking has been around since the late 1940's and has proven to be very safe. As much as the Left tries, fracking works very well and will do a great deal to get us away from Middle East oil.
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