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What the Regulators Are Saying About Hydraulic Fracturing

Written by Greg Russell | Jan 12, 2013 7:28:22 PM

We thought you might be interested in this collection of some of the statements regulators have made about hydraulic fracturing from National Review Online.  A sample:  "'We have never had any cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing,' Elizabeth Ames Jones said in 2011. The then-chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which supervises natural gas, added: 'It is geologically impossible for fracturing fluid to reach an aquifer a thousand feet above.'"

Read it all and enjoy.