Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems.
Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems.
Again, plenty to read and think about in the article; The research is coming from
The taxpayer-funded research by the University of Pittsburgh
, so doesn’t appear to be funded by a company with an agenda, and the awful after-effects of fracking are not hard to find - even from accredited sources. The article does mention there’s no definitive link quite yet, just correlation.I have not seen Gasland, but documentaries should not be trusted as scientific fact as they tend to be extremely biased and often produced by non-experts for the sake of entertainment. One thing about the Gasland-debunker to note: I’m not going to do a deep dive on him, but he has an extended history with 3 companies well-known for covering up their contributions to climate change.