There are many problems with fracking for natural gas. One of the main ones is the destruction of clean water resources. Although gas companies and paid supporters sometime deny it, fracking water contamination has indeed been confirmed.
When holes are drilled for fracking, they are supposed to go well below water sources. However …
Energy companies are fracking for oil and gas at far shallower depths than widely believed, sometimes through underground sources of drinking water, according to research released … by Stanford University scientists.
Common sense would dictate that oil companies not be allowed to drill into drinkable water. But the “Halliburton Loophole”, which is part of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, allows this since it exempts them from part of the Safe Drinking Water act!?
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