Saturday, August 18, 2012

When Poor Journalism and Bad Sceince meet. Methane in Water Means Fracking....NOT

Growing up in North Dakota I saw a lot of cases of Methane in the water. Gas bubbles that would ignite. Flames from the faucets. It was normal. Decomposing something down in the well created natural gas and it burned when exposed to flame. Our cattle drank the water. The methane gassed off. Sadly, the fracking technology is blamed now for what is a natural occurrence. Hundreds of intense studies have determined that fracking is harmless to ground water....if done right.

There may have been incidences where someone did make a mistake. There are courts and lawyers for all that.

Yet, the real problem is, there is a group of people who insist that this is a big deal, they have brainwashed ignorant people by their propaganda to create this kind of drivel.

I wish those who write for a living would dig a bit deeper before they opine. But it happens all the time on TV. A mispoken bad opinon goes into the ether (unless someone gets it on you tube). That in print stays much longer.

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