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Fracking's Consequences Obscured by Legal Tactic

by Anthony Robbins

Natural gas producers are battling public concerns over the health effects of their extraction techniques. Does injection of water and toxic chemicals deep into the ground to release methane gas contaminate ground water, and potentially drinking water? Now it appears that settled lawsuits and confidentiality agreements have prevented almost everyone from learning about the instances where serious contamination has been caused by gas drilling.