Hydraulic fracturing process

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1. What types of human health problems may be associated with the hydraulic fracturing process?

2. What is the geographical scope of the problem? In what regions of the U.S. have these problems been encountered?

3. a. What is the "fracking fluid" used for? b. What is it composed of? c. What is preventing the monitoring of these chemicals in drinking water supplies?

4. Besides contaminating drinking water supplies, what other types of pollution are associated with obtaining natural gas through hydraulic fracturing?

5. What is the "Halliburton Loophole" in the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)?

6. a. How much water does it take to "frack" a well?

b. How much of the water that goes down the well comes back up to the surface?

7. Officials from the oil and gas industry and some government agencies dispute the claims that fracking contaminates drinking water. What do you think is the strongest evidence that fracking is responsible for drinking water contamination?

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