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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by dr_dshiv on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:59PM (#30607720)
Here is a very recent paper describing three worst of the worst situations, where a casing was improperly cemented. Even then it is really unclear how bad the contamination was. Keep in mind there are over a million fracked wells in the USA.

Hammond, P. A., Wen, T., Brantley, S. L., & Engelder, T. (2020). Gas well integrity and methane migration: evaluation of published evidence during shale-gas development in the USA. Hydrogeology Journal, 28(4), 1481-1502.

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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by markdown on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:13PM (#30607941)
Can you light your tap water on fire, or do you refuse to live where this "safe" fracking occurs?
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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by dr_dshiv on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:48PM (#30609592)
Read this review. I know it seems like methane in the water is caused by fracking but there are good reasons to believe that it isn’t. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-envir...
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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by twofornone on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:45PM (#30610042)
How commonly do you think that flammable tap water issue occurs outside of anti-fracking propaganda films? Also you're aware that it is an occasionally natural phenomenon, right?
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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by kube-system on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:01AM (#30611119)
Well water is often naturally pretty nasty even without fracking. I am generally anti-fracking, but take those videos you’ve seen with a grain of salt. Those things happened routinely even before the fracking boom.

There are better criticisms of fracking like the higher rates of disease around well sites, and improper dumping of waste.

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