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EPA: Uh, Fracking Isn't Bad Afterall
Townhall.com ^ | June 5, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/05/2015 1:13:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

After years of unfounded hysteria from so-called environmentalists, the media and Hollywood that fracking causes drinking water contamination, the Environmental Protection Agency just issued a major blow to anti-fracking activists. 

A new report from the EPA, based on a study sanctioned by Congress, shows drinking water contamination only results if fracking wells aren't built or maintained properly, which is a rarity. 

"We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States. Of the potential mechanisms identified in this report, we found specific instances where one or more of these mechanisms led to impacts on drinking water resources, including contamination of drinking water wells. The cases occurred during both routine activities and accidents and have resulted in impacts to surface or ground water," the report states. "The number of identified cases where drinking water resources were impacted are small relative to the number of hydraulically fractured wells. This could reflect a rarity of effects on drinking water resources, or may be an underestimate as a result of several factors." 

The Pennsylvania EPA came to this same conclusion years ago.

In 2012 Hollywood liberal Matt Damon starred in the movie Promised Land (a film hypocritically bankrolled by Arab oil money) which portrayed a fracking company as killing off farms and making people sick through drinking water contamination in a small town. Further the 2010 documentary Gasland, which scares viewers about fracking by claiming the practice makes drinking water flammable, is now in the same fictional category with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The production of Gasland 2 was delayed by HBO after a number of factual errors were found in the first film. 

I'll leave you with this:

FrackNation "What could go wrong?"

FrackNation "Meet The Sautners"

FrackNation (Phelim McAleer)


TOPICS: Government; US: California; US: Michigan; US: New York; US: Texas
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1 posted on 06/05/2015 1:13:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Look at those fracking idiots.


2 posted on 06/05/2015 1:27:47 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Kaslin

The one on the middle left looks like a tranny Jerry Brown from the sign.

Oh, California... it probably IS Jerry Brown in drag.


3 posted on 06/05/2015 1:39:20 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Kaslin

Friday news dump. Hoping no one notices and the cause can go on.

Do you ever imagine how great this country could be without all the jerks holding us back? I do. Makes me wanna cry.


4 posted on 06/05/2015 1:50:46 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Ken H

We were discussing that word the other night in the context of the Battlestar Galactica series.
They made the word up and used it in exactly the same meaning and THE f word.

It became just as offensive as the real f word in a very short time.


5 posted on 06/05/2015 1:52:50 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
In 2012 Hollywood liberal Matt Damon starred in the movie Promised Land (a film hypocritically bankrolled by Arab oil money) which portrayed a fracking company as killing off farms and making people sick through drinking water contamination in a small town. Further the 2010 documentary Gasland, which scares viewers about fracking by claiming the practice makes drinking water flammable, is now in the same fictional category with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The production of Gasland 2 was delayed by HBO after a number of factual errors were found in the first film.

6 posted on 06/05/2015 2:09:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Look at those diehard Hillary supporters. Thanks Kaslin.
7 posted on 06/05/2015 2:16:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Kaslin

Boy, I bet THAT made headline news on ABCNNBCBS, NYT, LAT, NPR, Google, Public TV...NOT!


8 posted on 06/05/2015 2:40:33 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Ken H

The liberal MSM is NOT going to cover this one...


9 posted on 06/05/2015 3:11:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
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To: Kaslin
"EPA: Uh, Fracking Isn't Bad Afterall"

Not as bad, at least, as the EPA itself.
10 posted on 06/05/2015 5:49:40 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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