The pushback against the EPA draft report released a few days ago is getting louder and louder. The EPA and its pals in industry thought that with this deeply flawed 'study' which took five years, they could dispel all doubts about the dangers of fracking to the American public. The report is a sham and you need to know about it. Your tax dollars do finance the EPA, right?

I got my title from Wenonah Hauter, the Director of Food and Water Watch who issued this statement about the EPA study: EPA's fracking study has industrys oily fingerprints all over it

“Sadly, the EPA study released today falls far short of the level of scrutiny and government oversight needed to protect the health and safety of the millions of American people affected by drilling and fracking for oil and gas. The fate of our precious water resources should not be decided by an industry-driven study that will be used to justify the industry’s desire to drill and frack many thousands of new wells across the country each year. It is outrageous that the oil and gas industry refused to cooperate with the EPA on a single ‘prospective case study.’ This reveals the undue influence the industry has over the government and shows that the industry is afraid to allow careful monitoring of their operations.”

Here is Food and Water Watch analysis of EPA study.

Josh Fox creator of the documentary Gasland exploded on the pages of Ecowatch with this title: Fracking Does Cause 'Widespread, Systemic' Contamination of American's Drinking Water



In a draft report five years in the making, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that fracking does indeed contaminate drinking water, a fact the oil and gas industry has vehemently denied. But instead of dismantling the industry’s “not one single case of groundwater contamination caused by fracking” refrain, the EPA decided to go with the misleading headline “there is no evidence fracking has led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources.” It’s a puzzling conclusion since their study was conspicuously narrow (they did no new case studies, dropped three marquee cases that proved water contamination and dropped all air quality studies from the report).

In this must read, Fox blasted President Obama's (and Hillary Clinton's) All of the above energy policy and had this in your face photo to show both President Obama and Hillary Clinton of what a fracking legacy looks like. This photo is coming from Little Rock, Arkansas where a fracked gas pipeline ruptured in the Arkansas River within view of Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library:Here at Daily Kos, Meteor Blades pushed back with this brilliant but too polite analysis.

I wrote about how fracking wastewater is being used to irrigate crops here.

This is what you are paying for folks. Our government, and its agencies, are so entrenched with corporate industry influence that we can not even rely on our most revered entities to do their jobs.

You can submit public comments on this report here until August 28.

Information on how to submit public comments is here.

H/T to Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse