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Cornell University engineer on Fracking

In this short talk, Dr Anthony Ingraffea of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department of Cornell University talks about:

• why fracking is not a “60 year old tried and tested” technology
• how pretty much all wells leak within a few years, and why this is
• how fracked gas is not a ‘clean’ fossil fuel: in fact it is dirtier than coal

In his talks he also recommends the following two sites as sources of reliable, fact-led information about fracking:

http://www.earthworksaction.org/reform_governments/oil_gas_accountability_project

http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/