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by worstestes 1274 days ago
Do you have a source for this? I see light claims online but nothing truly concrete.
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Snopes has a big run down:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fruits-irrigated-fracking-...

There are lots of instances of them irrigating with oil waste water, injecting fracking water into aquifers used for irrigation, etc, etc. Then, there are counter claims like "well, we don't know if the [contaminant we release] is from us or is naturally occuring", or "there haven't been any studies showing this thing is harmful at that level", and in one case "we've been doing it for 60 years". There are also many instances of sloppy record keeping, contradictory statements, etc.

It looks like the standard gross polluter coverup playbook to me.