# Hydraulic Fracing Causes No Damage - University of Texas Study
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947
**Category:** Hydraulic Fracturing
**Created:** [February 20, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947 "2012-02-20T06:26:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Buddy\_Cotten](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Buddy_Cotten)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947/1 "2012-02-20T06:26:13Z")
The University of Texas Energy Institute released a study on hydraulic fracturing Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The report concludes that there have been no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination caused by the hydraulic fracturing process, and that hydraulic fracturing itself poses little risk to groundwater.
As a UT graduate, I want to accept everything they say as gospel, however I have some real problems with the “report/study.” For example:
The copy I downloaded Friday from the U.T. site is a draft, yet the media claims that it is a “study”, which implies a completed and substantiated work.
I was particularly interested in about substance migration related to drilling and fracturing, only two of the seven references I marked for follow up were listed in the reference section.
There are very many other errors, citations incompletely described, obsolete and/or incomplete sets or related and appropriate references, etc.
IMHO this report is an embarrassment to the Earth Sciences Center at UT and their Energy Institute.
If you want to read all 400+ pages, go here
[http://energy.utexas.edu/images/ei\_shale\_gas\_regulation120215.pdf](http://energy.utexas.edu/images/ei_shale_gas_regulation120215.pdf)
If you want to read a media report, go here:
[http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/study-no-link-between-fracking-contamination-2181925.html](http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/study-no-link-between-fracking-contamination-2181925.html)
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### Author:  [@Clint\_Liles](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Clint_Liles)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947/2 "2012-02-20T18:26:10Z")
Buddy,
The question is: “Who paid for the study?” It was probably Big Oil and Big Gas.
Buddy, I just want to say “Thank you for all the information you give to us mineral owners”.
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### Author:  [@Buddy\_Cotten](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Buddy_Cotten)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947/3 "2012-02-20T21:25:31Z")
Dear Clint,
Thank you for the kind words. The website says that they received no oil company funding.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/hydraulic-fracing-causes-no-damage-university-of-texas-study/21947/4 "2018-08-15T03:56:06Z")