Letter: Report the downside of fracking
Oil obtained from fracking is transferred into a tanker truck in North Dakota on Oct. 13, 2011. Credit: Bloomberg News
Regarding the "New oil boom" [Business, June 16], Newsday should not be extolling the virtues of fracking without mentioning its downside -- for example, permanently polluting our groundwater.
Just ask the people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere who can ignite the water coming from their faucets like a Bunsen burner.
Barbara Novack, Laurelton
