Health concerns have been steadily growing about fracking, and most of the concerns deal with water contamination.
And what prevents soil and surface water contamination from countless units that ultimately wind up in landfills?
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But the process has also raised fears of ground water contamination and is suspected of causing mild earthquakes.
Environmental and health studies have been conducted for years showing no linkage between fracking and drinking water contamination.
And how did that message plot get re-scripted when it turned out that the Dimock water contamination claim was baseless?
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The analysis did not address water contamination, which at the time would have been avoided, since the EPA rule remained in force.
On August 31, the EPA quietly released interim results of its ongoing review of possible drinking water contamination at several sites near Pavillion, Wyoming.
It's been linked to drinking water contamination all across the country.
The problem is, because of this seemingly endless flow of misleading information, the public is led to believe that any incident of water contamination was caused by hydraulic fracturing.
This view is echoed by Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Duke University in the US, who has published research on ground water contamination through hydraulic fracturing.
But critics of shale gas point to environmental concerns such as high water use and possible water contamination, the release of methane and, to a lesser extent, earth tremors caused by drilling.
Recently, after 60 years of fracking experience with no evidence of danger and no authority to regulate it, the EPA is determinedly trying to build a case against the process premised upon possible ground water contamination risk.
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When it comes to regulating domestic energy production going forward, it must be understood that the resources of our regulators are best focused on ensuring proper well design and technical compliance, not pursuing questionable allegations over water contamination and other media-hype.
Meanwhile, Shanghai residents, who are already jittery about water contamination from the dead pigs, are concerned over hundreds of dead carp that have been fished out of a man-made river in the city's Songjiang district since last week, China Daily says.
In its review of incidents of drinking water well contamination believed to be associated with hydraulic fracturing, EPA found no confirmed cases that are linked to fracturing fluid injection into CBM wells or subsequent underground movement of fracturing fluids.
John Sullivan of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission testified that since September 11 the nation's drinking water utilities have been on a heightened state of alert to protect against the potential disruption of water service and biological or chemical contamination of drinking water.
President Obama and the White House Council on Environmental Quality are committed to clean water, and want to reduce contaminants in drinking water, including contamination from improperly disposed medications.
Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.
The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes.
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Natural gas formations are thousands of feet below drinking water aquifers so for contamination to occur the fracking solution would have to move through multiple layers of rocks.
Environmentalists are also concerned about possible contamination of water supplies.
The only surprise here though is why the regulatory response is to ban fracking rather than explore the options, like water purification (if contamination is the barrier to progress).
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Environmentalists remained concerned about possible contamination of water supplies.
Farming fish close to shore often causes contamination of water and seabeds, so the company has partnered with fish producers to devise a remotely-controlled fish pen that can drift with currents in the open sea.
After reporting concern about contamination, water quality tests performed by the Texas Railroad Commission found naturally-occurring levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, which exceeded the threshold limit for drinking water, but found no evidence to support a flaming water claim.
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Local residents have expressed concern that the process - known as fracking - could lead to the contamination of the water supply.
Some scientists have proposed adding chemical tracers to fracking fluids as a way of confirming that any contamination of drinking water comes from the drilling process.
The natural gas industry has argued that flawed casing practices used while drilling shale-gas wells were responsible for methane contamination in drinking water supplies surrounding shale-gas wells.
Does he care whether his readers receive the information in the post about radioactive contamination of drinking water and milk or is he more interested in deceiving them into believing a conspiracy theory?
Contamination in food and water will be detected, and they will not be consumed.
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