What makes Up The Secret Sauce?

Until the passage of a recent bill, natural gas drilling companies were exempt from revealing the list of chemicals used in the extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing.

Although the industry steadfastly maintains the process has technological safeguards prohibiting the contamination of nearby groundwater resources, it was only a matter of time before the logic of these claims came into question.

Following the details of the article it is hard to conclude the changes to the quality of well water in this rural area of Wyoming could be anything but a cause and effect consequence of drilling.

clipped from www.reuters.com PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, fueling concern that a gas-extraction technique is endangering the health of people who live close to drilling rigs.