I found an article on The New York Times that told of a family who experience with the natural gas was all but negative. The article states the family moved to the Appalachian hills during retirement and their water was contaminated by methane from all the drilling.
It got me thinking if getting to the natural gas just as bad as what we been doing. Yes they found a technology called hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas from previously untapped beds of shale which the push has been so successful that the country’s potential gas reserves jumped by 35 percent in two years. But there have been worries about all the drilling to get to these groundwater supplies. The article continues to state that it’s a growing concern to surrounding towns near these wells. The article is available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/business/energy-environment/08fracking.html?em.
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