Reporter's Notebook: Hydraulic Fracturing

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Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica takes FLYP readers on a journey through Sublette County, Wyoming to take a tour of the wells and hear the voices of residents and experts on the issue.

Anecdotal evidence has been criticized by Gas Industry advocates in the debate over the inadequately funded EPA study.  There have been many anecdotal reports of fouled wells and air pollution, unknown risks to chemical exposure and hydrogen sulfide, and methane leaking from gas compressors captured on infrared film.

Cornell professor Robert Howarth has criticized claims that natural gas is "clean-burning".  There have also been no studies on the cost benefits of gas drilling.

See: Drilling for Truth and other articles by Lustgarten.