Fracking Has Had No ‘Widespread’ Impact on Drinking Water - EPA

[skookerasbil]

People on here hate my ass because I decimate their fantasies as they relate to global warming leading to a green world. The concept is beyond stoopid...........its simply a connect the dots exercise on follow the money. My graphs above are sobering to the core unless you are beyond gone.

The fix is in long ago s0ns.............hate to burst your collective bubbles.

 

[Valerie]

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[Valerie]

A little bit of contaminated water is okay. Let's increase fracking until the contamination is major. Then we can talk about fracking's impact.

and it's not widespread as long as it's not widespread...

 

[Dot Com]

Fracking isn’t causing widespread damage to the nation’s drinking water, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report released Thursday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—after a four-year study that is the U.S. government’s most comprehensive examination of the issue to date—concluded that hydraulic fracturing, as being carried out by industry and regulated by states, isn’t having “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water.”

However, the EPA said there were a small number of contaminated drinking wells and highlighted potential vulnerabilities, including the disposal of wastewater and construction of durable wells.

The report was issued nearly a decade since fracking began helping unlock vast reserves of oil and natural gas across the U.S. It also bolsters the position staked out by the energy industry and its supporters: that fracking can be carried out safely.

“Hydraulic fracturing activities in the U.S. are carried out in a way that have not led to widespread, systematic impact on drinking water resources,” said Thomas Burke, deputy assistant administrator of the EPA’s office of research and development, on Thursday. “In fact, the number of documented impacts to drinking water is relatively low when compared to the number of fractured wells.”

Fracking Has Had No Widespread Impact on Drinking Water EPA Finds - WSJ

No surprise there.

yeah. Its better if you just take the fracking waste and spread it over the topsoil in some field right?
Charged With Illegally Dumping Polluted Fracking Fluid Exxon Claims No Lasting Environmental Impact ThinkProgress

 

[Valerie]

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a much-anticipated study of whether hydraulic fracturing contaminates drinking water supplies, concluding that while there have been some cases of contamination, the issue is not widespread.

The draft study comes in response to a congressional request five years ago that the agency look into potential concerns about drinking water supplies.

The EPA said in a release that its analysis "shows that while hydraulic fracturing activities in the U.S. are carried out in a way that have not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources, there are potential vulnerabilities in the water lifecycle that could impact drinking water."

Burke emphasized that while the report is the "most comprehensive analysis to date" of potential groundwater contamination related to hydraulic fracturing, it is not meant to serve as a catalog of all instances of contamination related to fracking, nor does it propose specific regulatory or policy solutions.The study looks at more than 950 different technical reports, published studies and other pieces of information from stakeholders. Still, the researchers note that there were some limits to the data they were able to assess. The report cites several factors, including insufficient data on the quality of drinking water resources both before and after fracking at a site; a dearth of long-term, systematic studies; the presence of sources of contamination other than fracking; and "inaccessibility" of some information on hydraulic fracturing activities and potential effects.

Reports prior to the study's release had indicated that the study would suffer from the oil and gas industry denying access to specific information that might lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the effects on groundwater.


EPA Finds Some Cases Of Water Contamination Related To Fracking But Says It s Not Widespread


The EPA identified instances where contamination is more likely, including sites where water withdrawals are made in areas with low water supplies; sites where fracking is conducted in rock formations that contain drinking water resources; wells with inadequate casing and cementing; and in cases where wastewater that has been improperly treated is released into drinking water resources. Responses to the report have varied widely, with environmental groups arguing that it proves contamination from fracking is happening, and the oil and gas industry claiming that the report illustrates the safety of the procedure.

"The EPA's water quality study confirms what millions of Americans already know -- that dirty oil and gas fracking contaminates drinking water," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, in a statement. Brune also criticized the study itself for leaving "many critical questions unanswered," such as the potential public health concerns related to contamination.

 

[jillian]

Fracking isn’t causing widespread damage to the nation’s drinking water, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report released Thursday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—after a four-year study that is the U.S. government’s most comprehensive examination of the issue to date—concluded that hydraulic fracturing, as being carried out by industry and regulated by states, isn’t having “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water.”

However, the EPA said there were a small number of contaminated drinking wells and highlighted potential vulnerabilities, including the disposal of wastewater and construction of durable wells.

The report was issued nearly a decade since fracking began helping unlock vast reserves of oil and natural gas across the U.S. It also bolsters the position staked out by the energy industry and its supporters: that fracking can be carried out safely.

“Hydraulic fracturing activities in the U.S. are carried out in a way that have not led to widespread, systematic impact on drinking water resources,” said Thomas Burke, deputy assistant administrator of the EPA’s office of research and development, on Thursday. “In fact, the number of documented impacts to drinking water is relatively low when compared to the number of fractured wells.”

Fracking Has Had No Widespread Impact on Drinking Water EPA Finds - WSJ

No surprise there.

"widespread" being the operative word. it doesn't say "none".

and we know about increased seismic activity in oklahoma which seems to be a result of tracking.

 

[chikenwing]

A little bit of contaminated water is okay. Let's increase fracking until the contamination is major. Then we can talk about fracking's impact.

Well let's look closer ,its like 37 states have been using this method with outstanding results,and no water problems at all .yep any day now the years worth of proof its a use able tool,will just change.no matter how much the hysterical no nothing say it will be oh so bad,hasn't happens.its cost new yorkers billions

 

[Valerie]

you know, come to think of it, when you're in your twenties and smoking a pack of marlboro reds a day, i bet there's no widespread evidence of cancer in your lungs either... so, what the hell, smoke up johnny!