{"id":336936,"date":"2017-06-28T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7da5a71f4339df92af1b4e3c4aaaaf10"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:47:45","slug":"opinion-its-nonsense-to-say-fracking-can-be-made-safe-whatever-guidelines-we-come-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=336936","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: It&#8217;s nonsense to say fracking can be made safe, whatever guidelines we come up with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can fracking be safe? A new study suggests how fracking \u2013 the process of extracting oil and gas trapped in rocks deep underground by blasting water into the rock at high pressure \u2013 can be conducted without causing earthquakes, which is one of the most well known concerns. While this kind of research can help produce guidelines to reduce the risks associated with fracking, ultimately, it makes no sense to talk of fracking being entirely &#8220;safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can fracking be safe? A new study suggests how fracking &ndash; the process of extracting oil and gas trapped in rocks deep underground by blasting water into the rock at high pressure &ndash; can be conducted without causing earthquakes, which is one of the most well known concerns. While this kind of research can help produce guidelines to reduce the risks associated with fracking, ultimately, it makes no sense to talk of fracking being entirely &#8220;safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336937,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336936\/revisions\/336937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}