Much has been written lately about the UT Austin Energy Institute Study on fracking that found no evidence of groundwater contamination (for example, an editorial in Nature; Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth New York Times Opinion Column; Scientific American; and StateImpact Texas). It turns out that the lead author, Charles 'Chip' Groat, associate director of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute, failed to disclose that he holds a significant number of shares in the Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production Company. This lack of full disclosure has tainted the study and adds more fuel to the science-politics rancor surrounding fracking.
You can find the Energy Institute's study here.
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