Everybody Must Get Fracked (Updated) 0
And this surprises you how?
“People’s water has been harmed by drilling,” said Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental and earth sciences at Stanford and Duke. “In Texas, we even saw two homes go from clean to contaminated after our sampling began.”
“Gas well integrity problems” is fancy talk for slap-dash shoddy we-don’t-care-screw-the-people make-my-pile-and-get-out-of-here behavior. It’s the Buccaneer Petroleum way.
Addendum, Distinction without a Difference Dept.
Proponents of fracking are trying to spin this to mean that fracking’s okay because it’s all the wells’ fault, saying, in effect, that fracking didn’t set your water on fire, that nasty fracking well set your water on fire.