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NYT: Gas Drilling Techniques Under Fire...Again

New York Times, John Collins Rudolf
Published January 20, 2010

Federal government oversight of hydraulic fracturing – a drilling technique that boosts natural gas extraction by blasting water, sand and chemicals underground at high pressure – is sorely lacking, putting drinking water supplies at risk, an environmental policy group claimed in a report released Tuesday. According to the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., drilling companies are side-stepping a permitting requirement for the use of diesel fuel in their fracturing fluids by using similar petroleum distillates that contain the same toxins as diesel, but require no permitting. Read the entire article here: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/gas-drilling-techniques-und... Click here to read this post.
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