I'm sure this page at the link will be changed by the time some of you get to it. It is so ridiculous that even the host will try to find a relevant picture. Not a "more" relevant picture, but a relevant picture.
The EPA says first tests of the well water coming from Dimock, Pennsylvania, reveal that the water is safe to drink. Dimock is home to a fair amount of fracking natural gas wells.
The accompanying photo is of an oil pipeline in North Dakota where no natural gas wells are fracked (or if they are, a bare minimum). Wells in North Dakota are much, much deeper, and are oil wells, not natural gas wells. (Yes, natural gas accompanies the oil but that's a different story.)
And so it goes.
But in the "what goes around, comes around" category, a recent story about fracking in California in the LA Times was accompanied by a photograph from Dimock, Pennsylvania. Here's that link.
One would think that local newspapers reporting on a local story would have local photographs, but it appears that budget cuts and/or pure laziness makes it imperative/easier to simply cut/paste or otherwise link stock photographs from the internet.
Blogs do that all the time, but mainstream, print media with websites? Mainstream, print media outlets are turning into blogs.
