The Sierra Club should start printing retractions (something they’ve been getting a lot of practice
doing), because researchers from Yale University have concluded that
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, doesn’t contaminate drinking water! “[There is] no evidence of association with deeper brines or
long-range migration of these compounds to the shallow aquifers”
concludes the new study,
which was published in the highly prestigious Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science. The study, the largest of its kind, sampled
64 private water wells near fracking sites to determine if they could
be contaminated by fracking fluids. The Yale researchers found essentially no contamination in well water, and the amounts they did detect were hundreds or thousands of times smaller than can be detected by commercial labs...more
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