Saturday, November 24, 2012

Fracking the Great Lakes

EcoWatch: The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The good news is that legacy contaminants are decreasing more quickly than previously reported in three of the Great Lakes, but have stayed virtually the same in two other lakes, according to new research. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior...

URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/fracking-the-great-lakes/
Enclosure: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23085469

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