What the frack do we know? Not much, it turns out

[limpyhobbler]

17. You suspect people's faucets were already on fire and they just didn't say anything before?

And then when a gas drill moved in down the street they got upset so they decided to report the fires and pin the blame on the drill?

Seems kind of far fetched to me. I think it's much more plausible that the gas is migrating into the water.

Since I don't trust the industry, and you don't trust thousands of people who claim to have seen effects from groundwater contamination, let's have a moratorium on fracking at this time, so we can take time to study and make sure people are not being poisoned.

Everyone admits there is methane trapped underground especially along old coal seams, and everyone knows it can escape if there is a pathway out. If you fracture the earth with great force you will cause some underground formations to break apart and escape paths will be created for the trapped gas. That seems like common sense to me. There is enough reasonable suspicion for a moratorium at this time.

"Methane concentrations in drinking water were much higher if the homeowner was near an active gas well," explains environmental scientist Robert Jackson of Duke University, who led the study published online May 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We wanted to try and separate fact from emotion."
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In fact, concentrations were 17 times higher in those drinking water wells within one kilometer of an active natural gas well than those farther away.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fracking-for-natural-gas-pollutes-water-wells

17 times higher concentrations near drill sites. That's a coincidence?