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No matter what type of energy we use , there will always be someone protesting it : People have their own opinions , and issues like this tend to be very emotionally charged , which can result in the lines of truth becoming blurred . ( Editorial Credit : J . Bicking / Shutterstock . com )
material was coming from the man ’ s own water well which had been drilled into a pocket of methane , naturally occurring in the rock .
That is not to say that incidents have not happened . In May 2013 , Chesapeake Energy was fined USD $ 1 million by Pennsylvania officials who claimed that their fracking operations caused the contamination of water supplies for 16 Bradford County families . The contamination , however , was not the result of fracking itself , but from improperly cemented boreholes that allowed gas to seep out .
Argument # 4 : Fracking uses a tremendous amount of water . With the California drought looming like a dark cloud over the U . S .— not to mention the numerous droughts in other parts of the world — the massive amount of water that is used in fracking is causing great concern .
18 August 2015