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Things Find A Way: An Animated Video About Fracking

Things always find a way to happen … A pen leaking. Your shoelace coming untied. Toxic chemicals in your drinking water. What?! Watch this video to learn how the more oil and gas companies frack, the more trouble is finding ways to happen.

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The country is in the midst of an unprecedented gas drilling rush—brought on by a controversial technology called hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking").

It starts when oil and gas companies take good water, mix it up with not-so-good stuff and shoot it into the ground to force out the gas. And that's when things get really strange … Watch this video to learn how the more oil and gas companies frack, the more trouble is finding ways to happen.

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