Tr ut h l a n d Mov i e . c om
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
“We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years. And my administration
will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more
than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade.”
President Barack Obama
2012 State of the Union Address
“In no case have we made a definitive
determination that the [fracturing] process has
caused chemicals to enter groundwater.”
Lisa Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (Apr. 27, 2012)
“We’re going to drill for the natural gas … and we’re going to
tell them [OPEC] we don’t need their oil.”
Congressman Ed Markey
(D-Mass.)
7th District of Massachusetts,
(February 12, 2012)
“We’ve never had one case of fracking fluid going down the gas well
and coming back up and contaminating someone’s water well.”
John Hanger
former Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of
Environmental Protection (as seen in Truthland)
“Fracturing fluids have not contaminated any water supply, and with that much distance to an aquifer
[6,000 to 7,000 feet], it is very unlikely they could.”
Mark Zoback
Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University and member of the Natural Gas
Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (August 30, 2011)
“[T]here is at present little or no evidence of groundwater contamination from hydraulic
fracturing of shale’s at normal depths. No evidence of chemicals from hydraulic fracturing fluid
has been found in aquifers as a result of fracturing operations.”
Fact-Based Regulation for Environmental
Protection in Shale Gas Development
Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin (p. 18, February 2012)
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“Everybody in this room understands that hydraulic fracturing doesn’t
connect to the groundwater…It’s almost inconceivable that we would
ever contaminate, through the fracking process, the groundwater.”
John Hickenlooper (D),
Governor of Colorado and former
petroleum geologist (Aug. 2, 2011)
“EPA did not find confirmed evidence that drinking water
wells have been contaminated by hydraulic fracturing fluid
injection…”
Evaluation of Impacts to Underground
Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic
Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (executive summary, p. ES-16, 2004)
“We have never had any instance of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing — ever. For
any fluid, frac fluid, to migrate up a mile, two miles to the water table is impossible. You are more likely
to hit the moon with a Roman candle.”
Elizabeth Ames Jones
“Although an estimated 80,000 wells have been fractured in Ohio, state
agencies have not identified a single instance where groundwater has
been contaminated by hydraulic fracturing operations.”
Texas Railroad Commission (June 3, 2011)
Ohio Hydraulic Fracturing State Review
State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental
Regulations, Inc. (January 2011)
“There is no indication that hydraulic fracturing has ever caused damage to ground water or other
resources in Michigan. In fact, the OGS has never received a complaint or allegation that hydraulic
fracturing has impacted groundwater in any way.”
Harold Fitch
Director of the Michigan Office of Geological Survey (2009)
“I have been working in hydraulic fracturing for 40+ years and
there is absolutely no evidence hydraulic fractures can grow
from miles below the surface to the fresh water aquifers.”
Stephen A. Holditch
Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M
University, Member of the Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of
Energy Advisory Board (October 4, 2011)
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