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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4929)	3/9/2010 2:17:30 PM
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EPA probes whether shale gas drilling contaminates water supplies Reuters Published: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 The top U.S. environmental regulator said she was "very concerned" about fluids blamed by some for polluting water supplies near sites where drillers use them to extract natural gas from shale deposits. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson said she hopes her agency will launch a study this year into the nature of fluids used in the hydraulic fracturing process of natural gas drilling. "We are going to look at what the fluids are, what's in them. We are very concerned about that," she said. Exploitation of the cleaner-burning fuel could allow the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut its dependence on coal and petroleum imports. When burned, natural gas emits only half of the carbon dioxide per unit as does coal, which generates about half of the electricity in the United States. Critics, however, say the chemicals used in fracturing can contaminate water supplies. financialpost.com