KGAB 650AM » methane http://kgab.com KGAB, Your source for Cheyenne news and talk Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Fracking Leads to Methane Contamination of Water: Study http://kgab.com/fracking-leads-to-methane-contamination-of-water-study/ http://kgab.com/fracking-leads-to-methane-contamination-of-water-study/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 21:58:23 +0000 Jon Green http://kgab.com/?p=5276 A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides data helpful both to the fracking industry and those opposed to the natural gas drilling method, ProPublica reports.

Scientists from Duke University studied a number of drinking wells in the area of fracking wells. While no chemicals were found from the drilling process, methane levels in many water supplies were quite high.

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