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Press Editoral | Times Free Press Fracking would be a blessing
for our area  Fracking would be a blessing for our area
February 3rd, 2013 in Opinion Free Press   Photo by Associated
Press/Times Free Press.  Our region is sitting on a potential
gold mine - a tremendous natural gas reserve, accessible by
safe, responsible hydraulic fracturing stands to create hundreds
of jobs and generate millions of dollars for the Chattanooga
area.  Opponents of the hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking,"
procedure used to coax the natural gas from bedrock, claim that
fracking creates a perilous threat to the environment.  But that
simply isn't the fracking truth.  Some green alarmists claim the
process of fracking, which involves pumping soapy water mixture
into wells more than 3,000 feet below the surface, contaminates
groundwater.  Research performed by Popular Mechanics magazine
determined that fear simply isn't founded.  "The shale that
contains natural gas li