
{"id":22771,"date":"2012-01-12T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:45:22","slug":"letter-fracking-claims-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/01\/12\/letter-fracking-claims-misleading\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Fracking claims misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Glasser (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fracking too risky,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 12\/28\/11) makes a number of misleading claims about hydraulic fracturing in a recent letter, not the least of which is that the technology is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153incredibly dangerous.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But the truth is, fracturing has been used more than 1.2 million times in North America over the past 65 years, safely and efficiently. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a safety record that has been confirmed by the EPA more than a dozen separate times over the past 16 months.<br \/>\nAs for the charge that fracturing causes methane to seep into drinking water, a recent study by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania found the opposite to be true. Indeed, as one of the researchers noted, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see any clear evidence of any impacts from hydraulic fracturing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d relating to methane in water. Private water wells often do have naturally occurring methane in them, a phenomenon that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been documented by state regulators going back more than 100 years.<br \/>\nFinally, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting that Ms. Glasser would allege water contamination in a play, <em>An Enemy of the People<\/em>, was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very likely\u00e2\u20ac\u009d caused by hydraulic fracturing. That play was written by a Norwegian playwright in 1882, or more than six decades before the first natural gas well was ever fractured, which occurred in Kansas in 1947.<br \/>\nHydraulic fracturing is helping to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and boost local economies, but even this incredible technology is not able to travel through time. At least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Everley<br \/>\n<em>Energy In Depth<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Glasser (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fracking too risky,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 12\/28\/11) makes a number of misleading claims about hydraulic fracturing in a recent letter, not the least of which is that the technology is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153incredibly dangerous.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22772,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions\/22772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}