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UPDATE (7:00 pm ET, 2/29/2016): Following calls by the US Chamber of Commerce and Ohio State Rep. Andy Thompson for the University of Cincinnati (UC) to release its full findings from its groundwater study finding no water contamination from fracking, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce has now weighed in explaining,

“Taxpayers also helped fund the U.C. study. State law, and common sense, says that if tax dollars were used to conduct this type of research, the results must be made public. Several legislators, businesses, and groups that support safe and economic oil and gas drilling are calling out U.C. to release the full report. We hope they listen. This way residents in these areas of Ohio can feel safe knowing their water is not being harmed and can continue to freely enjoy the benefits of shale development in their communities.”

—Original post, February 26, 2016—

This week, the US Chamber of Commerce and Ohio State Representative Andy Thompson called on the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Geology to release the full findings of its groundwater study, which found no contamination from hydraulic fracturing. This call comes after EID published a video, which highlights comments by the lead author of the study explaining, “There was no significant change in methane concentration over time, even as more and more natural gas wells were drilled in the area.”

The study was funded by taxpayers as well as activists groups, who were left “disappointed” that the researchers found – after three years and 191 water samples – that the water contamination in Ohio wells “clearly did not have a natural gas source.”

To date, the study’s findings have only been made available at a public meeting hosted by an anti-fracking group, View Full Article