RealClearScience - 'Little Evidence' Fracking Sullies Water: 'Little Evidence' Fracking Sullies Water
The immediate concern about shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing is that fracturing several thousand feet below the surface would put chemicals into the groundwater that people drank and that would be very bad for health," said Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas in Austin, who led the inquiry. "A major part of our study was to see if there was any verifiable evidence that hydraulic fracturing itself was producing contaminated waters that ended up in groundwater," he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver.
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