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Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known "fracking" is a technique that has been in use since 1947 but actually took hold in 1997 when the technique was advanced to the point where it made shale gas extraction profitable. The technique injects fracking fluid at high pressure into shale deposits to produce additional fractures, which speeds and maximizes the extraction of the targeted hydrocarbons.


The oil and gas industry has enthusiastically backed the technique, citing the vast amounts of hydrocarbons that can now be extracted economically with little damage done to the local environment. As testing of water resources near areas where fracking is taking place reveal, the technique may be doing a lot more damage to surrounding areas than the oil and gas industry would like to admit.
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One study done in 2011 in Conoquenessing Township, Pa. found methane gas, ammonia, arsenic Astros Jeff Bagwell Jersey , chloromethane, iron, manganese, t-butyl alcohol, and toluene in well water adjacent to an area where fracking was commonly used.

Later that same year, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that fracking operations could be responsible for groundwater pollution. Commenting on the EPA's announcement Larry Schweiger, President of The National Wildlife Foundation said, "Today's methods make gas drilling a filthy business. You know it's bad when nearby residents can light the water coming out of their tap on fire." The reason behind his comment was the high levels of methane gas that result from fracking.

In another study released in 2009 by ProPublica Authentic J. R. Richard Jersey , methane contamination was commonly found in drinking water in areas around Anthony Ricigliano Fracking Operations in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania. Other studies continue to roll in with findings including:

A Duke University study showing that "most drinking wells near drilling sites have methane, but those closest to the drilling wells, within about a half-mile, had an average of 17 times the methane of those of other wells."

There is a long list of chemicals used or released by fracking that are carcinogens, neurological poisons Authentic Carlos Lee Jersey , and reproductive toxicants.

Radioactivity in high concentrations in runoff water.

With all these studies pointing to the health issues related to fracking, it's time to take another look to see whether additional access to hydrocarbons is worth the human cost. The populace believed the tobacco industry for years when they said smoking had no effects on health. Let's not make the same mistake with fracking and the oil and gas industry.

An investigation by New York Times reporter Ian Urbina, based upon thousands of unreported EPA documents and a confidential study by the natural gas industry, concluded, "Radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways." Urbina learned that wastewater from fracking operations was about 100 times more toxic than federal drinking water standards; 15 wells had readings about 1,000 times higher than standards.

Research by Dr. Ronald Bishop, a biochemist at SUNYOneonta, suggests that fracking to extract methane gas "is highly likely to degrade air Authentic Roy Oswalt Jersey , surface water and ground-water quality, to harm humans, and to negatively impact aquatic and forest ecosystems." He notes that "potential exposure effects for humans will include poisoning of susceptible tissues, endocrine disruption syndromes, and