Fracking and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
April 18th, 2011 | by Tina Casey
This has been a rather unfortunate week for proponents of fracking, the drilling operation that involves pumping chemical brine underground to loosen deposits of natural gas from shale formations. First, Cornell University released a study indicating that natural gas from fracking is not a cleaner alternative to coal. Then over the weekend, word leaked out of a
