Are snowballs no longer
melting in Hades? How else to explain the fact that nine natural gas drilling
firms that are actively engaged in hydraulic fracturing – i.e. “fracking” –
joined with the University of Texas and the Environmental Defense Fund to
conduct an independent, peer-reviewed study of this contentious environmental
issue? It’s true, and the study’s results were published this week by the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fracking is the injection of massive amounts of water and
a small amount of chemicals into shale rock formations thousands of feet below
the water table. Breaking the formations enables recovery of billions of
barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that were previously
unreachable. U.S. energy production is at the highest levels in decades largely
because of fracking....To Read More...
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