Listen To Hannity's Guest Set The Record Straight On How Fracking Pollutes Water

Austan Goolsbee: “We've Got A Lot Of Places Where [Fracking] Is Poisoning Their Groundwater” 

From the October 5 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): We all want to protect the environment but we have proven with fracking that we can protect the environment. We've proven that we can -- 

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE: In some cases I agree with that.

[CROSSTALK]

HANNITY: Excuse me. And we have clean coal and we've proven that we can drill effectively and clean and not depend on -- 

GOOLSBEE: No, now wait a minute. We've talked about fracking. And I agree that if you can do that in a clean way that does not poison the ground water, does not lead to earthquakes that are knocking people's houses down, that there are important opportunities.

HANNITY: All right, let me give an example.

GOOLSBEE: But we've got a lot of places where it is poisoning their groundwater --

HANNITY: No. There's not one instance where fracking has poisoned the groundwater. Not one. Not a single -- no. 

GOOLSBEE: Yes there is. What are you talking about?

HANNITY: Tell me where it is. Where is it?

GOOLSBEE: In Pennsylvania. 

HANNITY: No.

GOOLSBEE: You had those people, lit a glass of water on fire. 

HANNITY: OK. I am telling you there's not a single documented case where the drinking water has been impacted. 

Previously: 

Why Media Shouldn't Glorify PA's Fracking Industry

Newsweek, Wash. Times Publish False Headlines About EPA Fracking Study

Trump Adviser Stephen Moore Compares Fracking To “The Cure For Cancer”