EPA subpoenas Halliburton over fracking fluids | Reuters

[Victor Steinbok]

It seems doubtful that the writers of the new Battlestar Galactica
franchise (recently canceled, apparently) had much of an idea that
"fracking" is a real word.

http://reut.rs/cwmxiq
> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it has issued
> a subpoena to Halliburton for not revealing information about liquids
> used in a natural gas drilling technique called "fracking."
> ...
> During fracking, companies inject millions of gallons of water, sand
> and chemicals as far as two miles underground to break open fissures
> in the gas-bearing shale.
> ...
>
> Fracking has been around for decades, but companies have expanded its
> use in recent years to extract abundant but hard-to-access reserves of
> shale gas.
>

Un-fracking-believable coincidence?

     VS-)

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