Are You Scared of Fracking? I Certainly Was

Scared of Fracking? I certainly was about the safety of the technique especially after seeing video of a water facet catching on fire. Skeptoid just did a podcast on fracking looking at the claims with a critical eye. It does not debunk it, just talks about it. I highly recommend it

Brian Dunning
9/13/11
Skeptoid

There are few technologies today quite so popularly disliked today as fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, the practice of pumping high-pressure water into natural gas reserves deep underground to break up the rock and make the gas easier to mine. Fracking has been harshly criticized all around the world as dangerous, and has even been banned in a number of countries. There are charges that fracking uses toxic chemicals which contaminate ground water supplies; that it causes earthquakes; that it's killing endangered species; that tap water in fracking areas contains so much methane that it can actually burn; and that mysterious illnesses have resulted from the poisonous chemicals it pumps underground. Sound scary? It should. But how much of it is true? Fracking is a perfect place to turn our skeptical eye.
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