Originally Posted By: FAT BLOODY FINGERS



i don't really have much to say beyond this: the supposed "representatives" of the oil companies that travel my area's geology departments are complete fucking hacks who have not the slightest clue about fracture mechanics, stratigraphy, or structural geology. while I do believe that most of the contamination people see is pure surface runoff by shitty drilling (and not by deep hydraulic fracturing), the people doing it seem to have no idea about fracture propagation, interbedding (possible conduits for gas flow), etc....

it's pretty frightening, honestly. add to that the radioactivity of a lot of the rock units around this area, and it's a perfect shitstorm



- from a geologist, so even in your best scenario....what about dat old surface run off?



So now you've changed your tune about fracking and are attacking poor drilling techniques? I admit some people are fuck ups, but people who make a mess need to be held accountable and made to clean up the mess.

Here, why don't you read the Obama administrations own USGS's report on the contamination, due to fracking, the EPA says was causing contamination in their Pavillion, Wyoming monitoring wells.


The Reports

The Analysis


The difference between the US Geological Survey and the EPA is the difference between real science and agenda driven bureaucracy. There is just no evidence fracking is causing any contamination at all and after fifty years, if there was any, we would have evidence of it already.