10 biggest anti-fracking lies
Phelim McAleer, the producer of FrackNation, details his list of the top 10 lies told about fracking:
- Anti-fracking activists are nice people who love debate
- Everyone hates fracking
- Fracking is brand new and untested (started in 1947)
- Fracking makes your water flammable
- Fracking contaminates drinking water – one million fracked wells, zero cases
- Fracking uses a lot of dangerous chemicals – actually 0.5% only
- Fracking causes breast cancer
- Fracking uses a ton of water – 5% of that used to water lawns
- Fracking should be banned because it causes earthquakes – so do hydro dams and geothermal
- Fracking destroys the landscape and disturbs bucolic rural America – generally only for a few days
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