RICK PERRY, Texas governor and Republican candidate for President, scolding a college student who questioned his support for shale gas fracking at an event in Decorah, Iowa. Sorry, governor—there has indeed been a proven case of groundwater contamination from fracking. Earlier this month the Environmental Protection Agency released a draft report that concluded chemicals from fracking had likely contaminated groundwater near the town of Pavilion, Wyoming. Time to retire that talking point. (Hat tip to POLITICO.)
Texas Governor Rick Perry campaigns in an Iowa coffeshop on December 16.
“We can have this conversation, but you cannot show me one place — not one! — where there is a proven pollution of groundwater by hydraulic fracturing. I am truly offended that the American public would be hoodwinked by stories that do not scientifically hold up.”
