Montana homeowners demanding greater transparency about health, environmental risks of fracking chemicals

‘Rich in natural resources, Montana is becoming the new stomping ground for fracking, a practice that involves the high-pressure injection of chemical-laden water into rock formations deep underground, releasing oil and gas reserves that were previously unreachable.
Though it has essentially freed America from its reliance on the Middle East for fossil fuels, fracking remains controversial for a number of reasons, primarily due to its adverse health and environmental effects.
Fracking is strongly linked to water contamination, as the barrage of toxic chemicals injected deep underground sometimes make their way into groundwater and eventually into people’s wells. Weak regulations are mostly to blame, as well as trade secret safeguards that allow Big Oil to withhold information from the public about the toxicity of their chemical mixtures.’
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