No widespread danger to water from fracking: US agency
Washington (AFP) June 4, 2015 -
The controversial oil and gas extraction technique
known as fracking poses no widespread danger to US drinking water, the
US environmental agency said Thursday
in a long-awaited assessment.
Some water resources have been harmed by the practice formally called
hydraulic fracturing, it said, but concluded that the risk is small
compared to the number of fracking wells in use.
The evaluatio ...
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