04-12-2016, 01:01 PM
(04-12-2016, 12:29 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Good thing the companies aren't the ones making laws. Otherwise regulations would never happen. So it's not earthquakes vs cheap gas + lower carbon footprint. It's about the inept government keep looking the other way while they let fracking go under regulated.
Here is the source showing the EPA clearing fracking.
https://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/21b8983ffa5d0e4685257dd4006b85e2/b542d827055a839585257e5a005a796b!OpenDocument
"Specific instances" doesn't mean that fracking causes impact to drinking water. Even in your quote it says "fracturing activities in the U.S. are carried out in a way that have not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources". The analysis that they released even said that it's all preventable with regulations.
This report does not "clear" fracking at all. In fact it blames fracking for contaminated drinking water when fracking is conducted into rock formations that contain drinking water resources.
If fracking was regulated the way you want it then it would not be as widely available or financially lucrative.
