Category: fracking hazards

People who follow the fracking policy battles closely may be able to tick off the technology's primary environmental and public safety drawbacks: It may cause minor earthquakes, in a few cases the hydraulic fluids used to fracture deep formations may get into local groundwater or streams, it may strain local water supplies by diverting some of them into fracking duty. And, long term, replacing coal with natural gas may be a move in the right direction but it is nothing to stick with for a long tine - it inherently maintains significant greenhouse gas emission at a worrisome if lower rate.

Such things as that seem, from here, fair game for opponents to exploit. they provide fertile enough reason for reporters to be alert to exaggerations by partisans pro, con, and sideways.

However, at the AP this week reporter Kevin Begos...