Anyone trying to understand the truth about hydraulic fracturing needs to read reports and stories about it with an eye for what’s left out, because that’s often where the truth is to be found. 

Jon Campbell authors a blog called Politics on The Hudson and recently reported on a “study” published by from New York Environment, one of a collection of similar environmental groups across the country that have a habit of putting out identical sham studies relabeled for each state where they are published.  These studies never amount to much of anything, consisting largely of undocumented assertions, combined with a healthy dose of hysteria.  The latest one is no exception.  It sounds a false alarm over the consumptive use of water used in hydraulic fracturing with no context whatsoever.

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