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Fracking flowback found to consist of ancient radioactive brine

Marc Howe | December 19, 2012 | 4:52 am Energy Europe 

Scientists have concluded that flowback from hydraulic fracking in the Marcellus Shale region of the Appalachians is comprised of ancient underground brine water as opposed to the fracking solution itself, accounting for its high levels of salinity and radioactivity. Science...

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