Friday, March 2

Professors: Check your water in fracking areas


WHEELING - Three biology professors discussing natural gas fracking at Wheeling Jesuit University on Monday stopped short of calling for a full ban on the procedure, but they clearly have questions regarding the process.

From as far away as Los Angeles and New York City, roughly 100 concerned students, residents, activists and professors attended the Monday meeting. About 20 of them even brought in water testing results to be included in WJU research to establish a baseline of water quality in the Ohio Valley.

"If you are living on rural well water in the vicinity of these operations, you should have your water tested almost daily," said Ben Stout, professor of biology at WJU.

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