Raleigh Public Record (https://theraleighcommons.org/raleighpublicrecord/topics/fracking-2/page/2/)
The DENR study’s wording assures readers that while all of these chemicals are in fact hazardous and can pose problems for public health, exposure to them only occurs in case of an accident or a spill! Phew. It’s good that those sorts of things never happen.
Unlike other hydraulic fracturing fluids, diesel fuel is regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But as Laura finds in the DENR report, that doesn’t mean it’s actually regulated.
What’s in your water? As Laura continues to break down the DENR report on fracking, she finds some interesting facts about chemicals and groundwater.
As Laura continues to break down the DENR report on fracking, she delves into the end of Section 3, which is about water. Water is one of the main concerns surrounding fracking, and here DENR gives some hard numbers.
One thing unclear if fracking were to move forward: who would keep track of all that water use?
The next section of DENR’s fracking study takes a look at the effect on water supply – both the amount of water needed and the potential for groundwater pollution.
Thursday we looked at the first part of section two with lots of scientific absolutes. Today it’s time to bring the human factor in and turn absolutes into something, well, whatever the human equivalent of absolute is. Uncertain.
Laura continues her breakdown of the DENR fracking study. This time she examines part of Section 2, which gets a bit uncertain in some areas.
Blogging our way through the DENR fracking study.
A glossary for fracking terminology as we blog our way through the DENR fracking report.
