Exclusive: More Energy Woes? Congressional Assault on Fracking Begins » Publications » Family Security Matters: "It’s not a surprise, as we’ve repeatedly warned that it was coming, but last week the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to eight natural gas producers questioning them about the chemicals they use in their “drilling mud” while engaging in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” – a 50-year-old procedure which combined with the innovation of horizontal drilling has unlocked vast natural gas resources in areas like North Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale.
The committee, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and seconded by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) of Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade lunacy fame, intends to conduct hearings into potential threats of groundwater contamination arising from fracking. This despite the fact that in more than five decades of the practice’s existence, with over a million wells drilled, no documented case of groundwater contamination arising from fracking has ever been recorded."
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