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Re:Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom by kaonashi on Friday August 23, 2013 @03:12PM (#6265680)
The 'opposing side' is the PR shills hired by the gas industry (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alyssa-carducci/2a/148/889) (http://heartland.org/alyssa-carducci) (http://energyindepth.org/about/).

"Government Relations" is a nice euphemism for propagandist.

In 50 years when the Midwest is a toxic wasteland, many of those responsible might be able to move to Dubai, but our children and grandchildren are going to have to somehow live in it.

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Re:Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom by thatswrong0 on Friday August 23, 2013 @03:20PM (#6265737)
There's also a rebuttal to the debunking pdf:

https://1trickpony.cachefly.net/gas/pdf/Affirming_Gasland_Se...

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Re:Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom by hearty778 on Friday August 23, 2013 @09:19PM (#6267164)
Number of deaths caused by contaminated groundwater due to fracking: ____?
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Re:Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom by kaonashi on Saturday August 24, 2013 @02:40PM (#6269383)
Extremely loaded question. There's a documented increase in pollution, but trying to tie specific deaths to the increase is extremely difficult. We're talking about macro effects, not micro effects; so e.g. cancer deaths might increase by 20% or so, but cancer existed before the increase and will continue exist if fracking is stopped.
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