Look at it this way. If you're going on a jungle safari, you are told, "You may contract malaria and other diseases. Here is a list of innoculations that you should get." Do you skip those innoculations on the chance you won't contract the disease or do you take the safe route and get the shots?

The old say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"




>I don't see how that constitutes proof that shale mining readily pollutes groundwater.
>
>Water Quality Impacts
>Runoff from mining and retorting operations can
>impact surface and groundwater. In-situ operations
>pose greater risks to groundwater quality. Controls
>will be required to protect surface and groundwater.
>
>Effective technologies and management processes
>already exist and have been demonstrated in other
>commercial-scale mining and chemical processing
>applications.
>
>In-situ processes have been particularly challenged
>to protect groundwater from contamination by
>kerogen oil or other produced gases and sediments.
>
>Promising freeze-wall technologies are being tested
>to isolate ground water from subsurface in-situ
>processing areas until post-production flushing and
>clean-up of the heated areas has been completed.
>
>Surface runoff can be managed as established in other mining operations. As for groundwater, while challenged, promising technologies are being tested.
>
>What am I missing?