The truly delightful part is that those sources of funding which had hoped for different results ended up funding good science, and the answer to a question instead of funding some more politically skewed nonsense that would further taint scientific inquiry with junk.
In the end, if the studies conducted are of similar integrity, it enhances the ability of watchdog organizations to cry "foul" if the data and the studies done are free of political prejudice and untainted by agenda driven bias.
Recall, if we will, that when the Ecology (later "environmental") movement started, despite Soviet seed money going to some organizations to disrupt Western Industry, there were very real problems with pollution, which in some places and with some substances still happen.
Fraccing, however, is not one of these problems when conducted properly in well constructed wellbores.