>I’d be delighted if fracking were safe – I want cheap energy and not be dependent on foreign sorces.
My concern is that it may be safe but there are serious concerns that it isn’t. For a reminder about what happens (and drags on forever) when groundwater gets polluted, read the following article about the Superfund sites 40 year later.
A Neighborhood in Peril: North Jersey riddled with failed cleanups
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
BY SCOTT FALLON
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Forty-one years ago, then-Gov. William T. Cahill pledged that a new agency — the Department of Environmental Protection — would aggressively identify and clean up toxic sites.
The industrial pollution and illegal dumping that had turned New Jersey into one of the most notoriously contaminated states in the nation was no longer going to be tolerated.
Ten years later, the federal Environmental Protection Agency embarked on a promising new program to rid the country of its most polluted sites.
Because of those programs, regulators and lawmakers insist the state is much cleaner now. But there are still enough stories of failed cleanups to raise the question: Does the system work?
https://www.northjersey.com/news/134303948_No_Title_-_garfielddaythree1122.html
