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for every link you post bemoaning the big bad fracking monster....I can post a hundred links to SCIENTIFIC studies saying exactly the opposite. hell, we could play that game all day.

Studies funded by who?

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if they were found to illegally dump any form of waste, whether its hydrocarbons, frack fluid, or contaminated mud...they should be held to the highest extent of the law.

That's one source of problems: 1. It's too late for the residents at that point, isn't it? 2.They (energy companies) won't be.

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out of the thousands....tens of thousands of wells that are fracked each year...one or two MIGHT....MIGHT leak methane into a drinking reservoir? hell, it's not like we're fracking a field of roses...it's fricking hydrocarbons!!!!

Exactly why it shouldn't be allowed close to large residential areas. There are also air pollution concerns as well, not just water pollution.

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it's been down there for 10mm years adjacent to their freaking drinking water and now people worry that it might come in contact with their drinking water...HELLO, Mcfly.

Yes, down there for 10mm years adjacent to their freaking drinking water without being disturbed by fracking, that's the problem.

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it's a ridiculous argument, if that's the case let's shut down all forms of energy production and let people pay $10 a gal for gas

Oh no, an extremism argument.

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then they'll be begging us to frack.

In an area not close to large neighborhoods, go ahead.

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fracking is no more than pressuring up a hydrocarbon zone with soaps, gels and proppant...and yes every once in a while acids. if people think it can transmit from 2 miles below the earth into their drinking water at 25 foot...well, tell 'em to stick a fricking tap on their faucet and harvest all the oil and methane. tell 'em to watch out for the H2S stuff.

Not even sure what...

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Posted on 6/11/14 at 3:11 pm to USMCTiger03

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Yes, down there for 10mm years adjacent to their freaking drinking water without being disturbed by fracking

Natural seepage occurs everywhere. Our environment is in constant flux naturally.

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There are also air pollution concerns as well, not just water pollution

you can't be serious. Workers are out at these sites daily and will be subject to the highest concentrations of any toxic gases. Natural mixing forces within the air will dilute any dangerous releases within a few meters in the open air. Again most of these chemicals are released into the open air naturally or through common transfer processes at a process unit at much higher concentration levels than any local would ever experience.