Breaking news: Study links fracking to drinking water contaminatoin

For years, the natural gas industry has stuck to a single line as if the legitimacy of its existence depended on it (because maybe it does):"Hydraulic fracturing has never contaminated ground water."

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Breaking news: Study links fracking to drinking water contaminatoin

POSTED: Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:40 PM
Filed Under: FrackTrack | News

For years, the natural gas industry has stuck to a single line as if the legitimacy of its existence depended on it (because maybe it does):

"Hydraulic fracturing has never contaminated ground water."

Today, a study by Duke University researchers refutes that claim, as reported by Pro Publica and links hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale to cases of well contamination.

(The Pennsylvania DEP, under the leadership of former Secretary John Hanger, had already linked the contamination of water in Dimock, Pa. to drilling).

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