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To: tejek who wrote (617731)	6/28/2011 9:18:35 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578962

There's never any evidence until after the fact.....like with Love Canal and cigarettes. These kind of claims have been made since the country was been founded only to be overturened by reality. Oh. So, what happened to liberals being all about the science? Love Canal happened at a time when nobody knew, LITERALLY, the effects of the chemicals that were dumped there. It was three or four decades LATER that the facts came out. Nobody ever considered the possibility that these chemicals were harmful, and nobody gave any consideration to the possibility they could end up contaminating anything. The fracking industry has been under the microscope with extensive testing for several years, and NO EVIDENCE OF CONTAMINATION has turned up yet. Basically, you got nothing. As to cigarettes, the story was entirely different. You're talking about a highly addictive substance where its manufacturers were part of the fabric of the American economy since the earliest days of the country. They had plenty of money and CONTROLLED the science on the subject, which made it easy to mislead the public -- and the addictive nature of the substance made it astoundingly difficult to get people to stop using it. We don’t know enough about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to judge whether the process will contaminate drinking water supplies, harm the environment, and have harmful effects on human health. This is a damned lie that ignores the science. We DO know the process will not contaminate the drinking water because the drinking water has been tested and re-tested and no evidence of contamination has been found. FURTHERMORE, good sense tells you that chemicals used THOUSANDS OF FEET BELOW THE WATER TABLE are not going to mysteriously gravitate UP to the water table so as to contaminate it. In New York the issue has raised particular concern because part of the Marcellus Shale lies underneath the city’s drinking water supply EXACTLY. God, you people are dumb.