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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on June 22, 2013 at 7:45

Do you have a specific link?

I am a real bug for decent studies and have also noticed stupid stuff - like a pro-frack study from UT that failed to disclose it's researcher's ties to oil companies or the flaming faucet bs in Gasland.

I do not expect perfection from researchers and everyone is human and has a bias. However, good methodology and disclosures is what gets my respect. Besides, good science is the only way to learn and improve things ...

Anyone who thinks fracking can be banned or stopped is fooling themselves. It's now a world wide technology that is changing energy thinking around the globe. Of course, research needs to go into making the technology as modern and safe as possible - which is a continuous process.

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Permalink Reply by Steve P on June 22, 2013 at 16:35

I'm having a hard time copying and pasting since I'm away from home.  Just google EPA Fracking and Wyoming.  several articles, one short one on The Hill, one in the on-line version of WSJ.  EPA made its announcement this past Thursday.

The UT study was a debacle, not in its methods or approach, but because the professor failed to disclose his obvious conflict of interest through a relationship with industry. 

  

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