Last year, the EPA published a draft report on fracking. The report said that fracking was pretty safe. To appreciate how strong this statement was in favor of fracking, remember that the EPA is controlled at the upper levels by environmentalists who really don't like oil and natural gas as an energy source.
Here's a quote from the Washington Post
In 2015, a draft report found that fracking has caused isolated instances in which drinking water was affected, but did not bring about “widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water. At the time, Burke added that “the number of documented impacts to drinking water resources is relatively low when compared to the number of fractured wells.”
That was too much for the Left. The environmentalists and the movie stars protested so much that the final report came out with a list of ways that fracking can damage drinking water. If you read the list with a critical eye, it mentions all the things that can possibly go wrong. Seldom do any of these things go wrong, and the harm is minuscule in the universe of energy development, but the Left is jumping all over this report as condemning fracking.
Consider the New York Times, which is turning into a less reliable source of information than the tabloids at the check stands. At least they got the quote right:
The new version is far more worrying than the first, which found “no evidence that fracking systemically contaminates water” supplies. In a significant change, that conclusion was deleted from the final study.
It is unfortunate that pressure from the left, with no basis in real science, influences public policy to the detriment of all people.
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