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Fracking Chemicals Didn't Contaminate Water, Study Finds
2013-07-22 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard...
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