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Fracking water

Hmmm, sounds like some sort of curse word. In many people’s minds, it already is a curse word. Here’s a report on a U.S. Forest Service study that said fracking water isn’t good for trees, particularly in the concentration tested:

A study that argues for more research into the safe disposal of chemical-laced wastewater resulting from natural gas drilling found that a patch of national forest in West Virginia suffered quick and serious loss of vegetation after it was sprayed with hydraulic fracturing fluids.

A commenter has the solution: Genetically modified trees that aren’t negatively affected by fracking water.

Posted in Enviro.


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  1. contrarian says

    Is that the method that fracking water is normally disposed of? I thought normally it remained underground?

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