Scientists Just Pinpointed Another Example Of Fracking’s Environmental Impact

Posted by on May 12, 2016 @ 10:52 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: May 11, 2016

A dumping site for fracking fluids long suspected to be leaching into Wolf Creek, a West Virginia waterway with ties to a county’s water supply, has indeed contaminated the creek with multiple chemicals, a new U.S. Geological Survey study has found. The “study demonstrates definitively that the stream is being impacted by [unconventional oil and gas extraction]...

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