Duke University Study: Fracking Isn't Contaminating Ground Water

[rangerrebew]

Duke University Study: Fracking Isn't Contaminating Ground Water
Matt Vespa
 
Posted: Apr 27, 2017 7:00 PM
 

We have another study from Duke University that shows groundwater isn’t being polluted by fracking, despite the cries from the environmentalists that the process, which is used to tap into natural gas resources. It’s been the crux of their narrative against this sector of the economy that’s rapidly growing throughout the country. The study was three years in the making, peer reviewed, and was recently published in the European journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. They did say that surface water might be impacted due to spills:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/04/27/duke-university-study-fracking-isnt-contaminating-ground-water-n2318704

[Smokin Joe]

I have been saying that all along. In a properly constructed well, the only way for frac fluid to get into surface water is through equipment failure or surface spills.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Anybody with any sense whatsoever will realize that it is very unlikely to happen.

What the uneducated see is prodigious amounts of liquids and sand being pumped at high pressure into a well.  That is the crux of the matter, as the chicken-littles see no more than that, and believe it must be contaminating.  Some of them perhaps can, but the truly evil ones will see it, but have an agenda to drive, so try to persuade the ignorant otherwise.

[Joe Wooten]

I predict this study will be studiously ignored by the envirowhackos as it does not re-inforce the narrative.....