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Fracking Nation

Posted July 11, 2011 1:40 PM

From Discover Health & Medicine:

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid. Bank is now bringing attention to yet another problem: radiation.

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07/12/2011 3:44 PM

I really dislike these kinds of articles, written with a strong bias using high emotional content words, low on facts, high on one sided emotional charges. I would much prefer opinion pieces not be included here.

A filter would surely be used on the out coming fluid before it was sent to a down stream facility and that filter would not be radioactive enough to hurt anyone. yet the grand standing is happening. Would be nice if a reporter who dealt in honest and complete facts could be found. Uranium and strontium have a high salable value. If there was enough to be dangerous there would be more than enough to sell.

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07/13/2011 8:37 AM

I used to subscribe to Discover magazine. I dropped it when I, "discovered", that it had become a panic spreading arm of the radical left.

That said. If the dangers of fracking are true, we have a responsibility to clean it up and look into alternative methods..............................which is happening. It just never gets mentioned.

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