Friday, August 17, 2018

A Faustian bargain


BRT has waxed poetic about the perils and foolishness of fracking, a short term solution to a long term problem with emphasis given to its destruction of precious aquifers in order to generate fossil fuel energy no matter what the cost may be.

An alarming new study reveals fracking is quite simply destroying America’s water supply.

That means we are losing potable water forever in many semi-arid regions of the country, while simultaneously producing more carbon pollution that in turn is driving ever-worsening droughts in those same regions, as fracking expert Anthony Ingraffea, a professor at Cornell University, explained to ThinkProgress.

The game-changing study from Duke University found that “from 2011 to 2016, the water use per well increased up to 770 percent.” In addition, the toxic wastewater produced in the first year of production jumped up to 1440 percent.


End result ...



Yes indeed.

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