Causes Quote by Scott Anderson

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human…

— David Suzuki

There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case…

— Rex W. Tillerson

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.

— Kenneth Fisher

Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

— Ken Salazar

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural…

— David Suzuki

In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions…

— Josh Fox

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time.…

— Sandra Steingraber

Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to…

— Ken Salazar

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water…

— Sean Lennon

I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe,

— Ken Salazar

Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether…

— Ian Somerhalder

Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift…

— Barry Gardiner