Many residents of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia and across the South who thought they’d hit the lottery by signing natural gas drilling leases have watched their drinking water turn noxious: slick, brown, foamy, flammable.
All along, the industry has claimed that natural gas fracking is safe and does not pollute drinking water. But in December, for the first time, federal regulators scientifically linked fracking to the contamination of an aquifer.
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study found numerous fracking chemicals in groundwater in the rural ranching community of Pavillion, Wyoming. Cancer-causing benzene was found at 50 times safe levels, along with toxic metals, diesel fuel and other hazardous chemicals.
The Ozsarks Sentinel
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