Robert Bryce, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal this morning to wave off government regulators from a new technology that’s prompting a shale drilling boom: hydraulic fracturing:

Although hydraulic fracturing has been used more than one million times in the U.S. over the past 60 years, environmental activists are hoping to ban the process or have it regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Opponents claim the process can harm groundwater even though drinking-water aquifers are separated by as much as two miles of impermeable rock from the shales that are being targeted by the fracturing process.

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