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Environment & Energy

FBaggins

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20. Hard to say

Reply to limpyhobbler (Reply #19)

Wed May 22, 2013, 05:34 AM

May 2013

The sample set it too small to make a judgement (and the paper itself says as much)... and I have a hard time believing that both the EPA and state DEP are flat-out lying.

I have no trouble believing that out of many thousands of wells (fracked or not), the ones that were done poorly could have a negative impact... but not drilling in general. And the paper does not support the scenario in your post #17 that fracturing of the earth for drilling is causing migration of gases from lower geological formations into shallower ones.

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What the frack do we know? Not much, it turns out [View all] xchrom May 2013 OP

Stable isotope signatures provide that information. Buzz Clik May 2013 #1

Yup sikofit3 May 2013 #4

The drilling could be causing a physical disruption of higher-level seams wtmusic May 2013 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author sikofit3 May 2013 #11

"occasionally bubbles up through cracks in the earth" Warren Stupidity May 2013 #2

Yes sikofit3 May 2013 #3

well if you water is not on fire, and then they put in a frack pad next door, and then your faucets limpyhobbler May 2013 #5

Exactly Champion Jack May 2013 #6

Thank you wtmusic May 2013 #8

I might has more sad if I hadn't seen the kid on the ATV... hunter May 2013 #9

LOL I was surprised too to see a 5-year old with his own ATV limpyhobbler May 2013 #10

And that the dad previously confronted them with a shotgun. FBaggins May 2013 #12

maybe but I'm not sure that changes the environmental impact question. limpyhobbler May 2013 #13

It caused me to question his honesty. FBaggins May 2013 #14

Beats me. Industry makes billion?s of money on this so those are the last people I would believe. nt limpyhobbler May 2013 #15

People make lots of money on wind farms too FBaggins May 2013 #16

You suspect people's faucets were already on fire and they just didn't say anything before? limpyhobbler May 2013 #17

I don't just "suspect". I know it for a fact. FBaggins May 2013 #18

So why were methane concentrations 17 times higher in water near frack pads? limpyhobbler May 2013 #19

Hard to say FBaggins May 2013 #20

Why are they exempt from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA? limpyhobbler May 2013 #21