A University of Colorado Boulder study released today states that people have little to fear from chemicals used during the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Chemicals taken from samples of fracking funds in five states revealed they were no more noxious than household chemicals.

According to Science 2.0:

The paper in Analytical Chemistry identified the surfactants found in fracking fluid samples from Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Texas. The results showed that the chemicals found in the fluid samples were also commonly found in everyday products, from toothpaste to laxatives to detergent to ice cream.

Researchers stressed that there maybe different chemicals used at different wells taking into account local geography. However, the results are significant since it helps invalidate the mean greenies claims that fracking involves using toxic chemicals that can get into groundwater that we drink.

I am sure such news will get scant coverage in the media and will not sway environmentalist groups. Remember, even the greenies could not withstand the highest bidder when Middle Eastern financiers give money to them to conduct anti-fracking activities in places like New York. Even the Sierra Club was the recipient of $26 million from Chesapeake Energy Corporation to support their anti-coal activities.

Even if they didn’t receive corporate or Middle Eastern money, environmentalists are diametrically opposed to any source of energy that makes our lives better. Their worship of nature demonstrates their preference for the primitive savagery of nature over the civilization of mankind.