Rolling Stone just published a laughable “health study” conducted by a team of committed fractivists. It’s not a study at all, in fact, but a junk science compendium, as Seth Whitehead at Energy In Depth illustrates, demolishing the whole thing to the point there’s nothing left of it. Read his detailed analysis and see just how bad this most recent effort by Sandra Steingraber and company real is. The only thing he left out is the fact Sandra has heated her own home with natural gas while attacking fracking.

The Canadian health study’s (“New Brunswick Shale Gas Air Monitoring Study”) aim was to determine whether fracking caused air pollution. It monitored air quality near shale gas wells during their four stages of development. This showed the air quality during the life cycle of shale gas development, from prior to development to well closure. Their findings prove what we have been seeing all along; shale gas development is not significantly harmful in any way to air quality. In fact, fracking is improving air quality wherever it facilitates natural gas replacing coal or oil.