REDORBIT: A report released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday reveals that a controversial natural gas production technique, which is key to a century of U.S. domestic supply, is causing contamination of drinking water.
Scientists from Duke University collected 68 drinking water samples that showed potentially harmful levels of methane in drinking water near drilling sites in Pennsylvania and New York.
"In aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations of northeastern......
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Methane Gas Is Contaminating Drinking Water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 10th, 2011
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