Few people know fracking better than Paul Hetzler. He's an environmental engineering technician who for years worked for New York's Department for Environmental Conservation (DEC). Mr. Hetzler managed dozens of groundwater remediation projects in the 1990s. He's pored over "thousands of lab results from contaminated wells," and he's intimately familiar with the movement of contaminants through fractured rock formations. In an intensifying national debate brimming with so-called experts, by all accounts, Mr. Hetzler is the real deal – and he's speaking out about the dangers tied to the fastest growing sector of our new energy economy. In a recent "letter to the editor" published in the Watertown Daily News, he wrote: Hydraulic fracturing as it’s practiced today will contaminate our aquifers. Not might contaminate our aquifers. Hydraulic fracturing will contaminate New York’s aquifers. If you were looking for a way to poison the drinking water supply, here in the Northeast you couldn’t find a more chillingly effective and thorough method of doing so than with hydraulic fracturing. In addition to the poisoning of a water supply that reaches 15 million Americans, there will also be an economic price that will come out of all our pockets. More from Mr. Hetzler: When contamination occurs – and ...
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