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Misty » 22 Feb 2016 8:20 pm » wrote: I wonder why he changed the title of the piece he linked to?
The actual title is: Even Obama’s EPA Now Admits Fracking Hasn’t Harmed Water Supplies
Nowhere in that piece does it say that there is NO danger to ground water from fracking.
It only says that the EPA did not find widespread, systematic impacts on drinking water.
His link is an opinion piece from the National Review.
I found another piece written on the exact same day from what claims to be an independent, non-profit, non-partisan source.

Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes

I also found a second source written three days later.

EPA says fracking could contaminate drinking water.

All three sources are based on the same EPA report, yet the second two seem to interpret it differently from the first.
And radically different than the way GB sees it.

As a result, the report stitches together a piecemeal picture of fracking-related incidents. It relies on several case studies involving a handful of major incidents, such as a well blowout in Killdeer, N.D., that state regulators investigated. It also uses state data for possible contamination events, such as spills of fracking fluid at well pads, which EPA acknowledges provides a limited scope of the problem.


"The spills occurred between January 2006 and April 2012 in 11 states and included 151 cases in which fracturing fluids or chemicals spilled on or near a well pad," the study said. "Due to the methods used for the EPA's characterization of spills, these cases were likely a subset of all fracturing fluid and chemical spills during the study's time period."