Fracking contamination downplayed (BBC) {or ... maybe not}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, Vancouver

The concern that hydraulic fracturing of shale formations to extract natural gas is contaminating groundwater is overstated, claims a new report.

Researchers reviewing the available data in the US found nothing to suggest "fracking" had a unique problem.

Rather, they suggest the contamination events that do arise are just as likely to afflict other types of oil and gas drilling operations.

The claims were made at the annual AAAS conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Charles "Chip" Groat, associate director of Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, led the study.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17073435




Good news ! It's not that much worse than all the other $#!% that Big Oil does !

[Dead_Parrot]

1. That's alright, then

I was worried for a while, there. Onward!

[grntuscarora]

2. U of Texas-Austin?

Didn't they get 3.5 million in donations from Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Shell recently? Oh, my. Yes, they did.

https://giving.utexas.edu/2011/05/02/energy-companies-bolster-academics/

But I'm sure that is just a coincidence.