Pete McKenzie, VP of Operations at the Ohio Oil and Gas Association explains the importance of research surrounding hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas development:

"It’s amazing what you can learn with a little research. Unfortunately, we’ve been hearing a lot of commentary on the practices and processes involved in oil and gas development from a lot of folks who seem to do little to educate themselves on the subject. It’s a troubling trend, especially when the benefits of oil and natural gas development in the Utica Shale (at this early stage), are already coming to fruition.

Over the past several years, hydraulic fracturing (sometimes referred to as “fracking”), a process used in oil and gas drilling, has become a household term, with many worried about fracturing’s ill effects on wildlife and the safety of groundwater.  This craze of false facts has led to many misinformed people, who believe that hydraulic fracturing is a new technology that contaminates drinking water and causes earthquakes.  In reality, all of these concerns can be rebuked with simple research into the hydraulic fracturing process."

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