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  • Frack Attack: Cracking the Case Against Hydraulic Fracturing0

    • July 26, 2012

    A ban on fracking would not satisfy those who present general arguments against any kind of development. Acceptance of these arguments would require an outright ban on all oil and gas activities, new wind farm construction, electric transmission construction, residential housing developments, road construction, and the like. Before accepting any argument against fracking as sufficient grounds to restrict or ban its use, one should take that argument to its logical conclusion and consider the full set of repercussions. For if such arguments are granted valid status, they will be used again and again by whichever parties can benefit from shutting down any particular form of development.

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  • Cancer Risk From Fracking Chemicals Needs Some Perspective0

    • June 25, 2012

    By Donovan Schafer The Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) at the University of 
Colorado recently published an article in Science of the Total 
Environment presenting results from a study on air pollution due to 
oil and gas development (including hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”) 
in Garfield County. Benzene and other 
”potentially toxic” chemicals were found

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