LICKING COUNTY — “Science, it turns out is catching up to the industry’s hype, stripping the royal illusions one by one.
First, the industry claimed that “frackwater,” a combination of tons of carcinogenic chemicals and millions of gallons of water, was drinkable. When the public saw through that, the industry changed its story. Then the industry claimed that a solid layer of rock thousands of feet down would protect our drinking water from frackwater, as well as dangerous naturally occurring elements below the surface. Now a new study by Duke University shows that chemicals and gases, natural and man made, can migrate to the surface and our drinking water. (today.duke.edu/2012/07/ Marcellus)
In July, Scientific American magazine reviewed the history of injection wells, where we ‘hide’ the carcinogenic waste materials of the fracking process. They concluded that injection wells represent a significant and unmonitored health hazard to the American people, subject to the same “migration” of fluids and gases. We have two of these in Licking County. Many, more are planned statewide.”
— Allen Schwartz, letter to the editor, Newark Advocate
