Re:Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom
by hearty778 on Friday August 23, 2013 @09:19PM
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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
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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.