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What the Regulators Are Saying About Hydraulic Fracturing

By Greg Russell on January 12, 2013

We thought you might be interested in this collection of some of the statements regulators have made about hydraulic fracturing from National Review Online.  A sample:  “‘We have never had any cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing,’ Elizabeth Ames Jones said in 2011. The then-chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which supervises natural gas, added: ‘It is geologically impossible for fracturing fluid to reach an aquifer a thousand feet above.'”

Read it all and enjoy.

  • Posted in:
    Energy, Environmental
  • Blog:
    Energy & Environmental Law Blog
  • Organization:
    Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

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