Industry Presentation Admits Water Contamination from Hydraulic Fracturing

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: I love it when you catch Industry accidentally telling the truth.

Here’s another time when an industry consultant told the truth. The following slide is from a presentation given by Harry Vidas, Natural Gas Consulting, at the “Energy Future Coalition” natural gas forum in DC on May 28, 2009.

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Notice how he admits that underground water contamination related to hydraulic fracturing fluid is an environment concern. I guess industry attendees put their fingers in their ears and sang, “la, la, la,” during this presentation.

Would this be a EUREKA moment?

Oh! And here’s another one from a different slide:

“Fracturing Technology:

• learning-by-doing”