Fracking Fluids Killed Fish in Kentucky Stream
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Hydraulic fracturing fluids that spilled from natural gas wells in 2007 probably caused the “widespread death or distress” of fish in a Kentucky stream, according to the U.S. Interior Department.
Chemicals that entered the Acorn Fork creek, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) southeast of Lexington, polluted water supplies and resulted in “a significant die-off” of species including the federally threatened Blackside dace, according to a government statement yesterday. The findings were from a joint study by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Fish & Wildlife Service.