FROM WLOS TV (and the Raleigh News&Observer):
North Carolina will be a testing case to help determine whether a natural gas drilling method called fracking contaminates drinking water supplies. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday, (http://bit.ly/t7RUNm) that Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey will test dozens of water wells in counties with natural gas deposits before companies start drilling there. ...Read the full article
North Carolina will be a testing case to help determine whether a natural gas drilling method called fracking contaminates drinking water supplies. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday, (http://bit.ly/t7RUNm) that Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey will test dozens of water wells in counties with natural gas deposits before companies start drilling there. ...Read the full article
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It's FRACKING. Not "tracking."
Fricking fracking. I can't believe they actually have to ask the question, given the 1000+ documented cases of fracking water pollution.
http://www.waterdefense.org/the-problems/fracking
By Jeff
12/01/2011
Don't you mean 'gas FRACKING'? And 'yes', there are volumes of empirical studies that conclusively show this highly risky and inefficient process pollutes groundwater. To suggest otherwise is nonsense.
By Dionysis
12/01/2011
"Survey will test dozens of water wells in counties with natural gas deposits before companies start drilling there."
This 'survey' is fairly pointless. It only provides a baseline for before they start fracking. It only means anything if the state of NC changes the law to allow fracking. Once that starts, there will be no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Now, if they tested a few wells, and then only allowed drilling near those few wells for a number of years, I might be impressed. But that's not what is happening here. Legalize it across the board, and you could have scores of people dropping dead, and you will still never stop it. The money involved is too huge.
By Barry Summers
12/01/2011