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Water damage; Editorial; Beaver County Times; May 22, 2011.
Given the editorial’s title and the statement “The national environmental group America Rivers last week put the central Pennsylvania waterway [Susquehanna River] at the top of its annual ‘most endangered rivers’ list,” you might think there are real problems with the river. Not until the fourth paragraph does the editorial concede “the paper [Patriot-News of Harrisburg] reported there is no evidence fracking has contaminated some water wells.”
As I’ve written previously, companies harvesting our natural resources must do so in a responsible manner and must have the financial and technological wherewithal to handle worst-case scenarios. It is government’s responsibility to enforce these rules and to make sure everyone involved [businesses and government (local, state, federal)] is prepared (via drills, for example) to execute disaster plans. In the very, very unlikely case we can’t do this while providing a commercially-viable energy source, there should be no drilling until we can.
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