Drilling Down: One Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More
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Drilling Down: One Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More

Seattle : WA : USA | Aug 03, 2011 at 10:27 AM PDT
Source: The New York Times
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Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, has said that there are no reported cases of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. The claim is based in part on a simple fact: fracking, in which water and toxic chemicals are injected at high pressure into the ground... FULL ARTICLE AT The New York Times
 
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