Visit my website: www.oilandgaslitigator.com In the past six months, at least three lawsuits have been filed alleging that an oil and gas technology known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking has caused drinking water contamination. Oil and gas operators use hydraulic fracturing to stimulate oil and natural gas production. Typically, they inject fluids underground at high pressures causing a rock formation to fracture, which allows oil or gas to flow more freely out of the formation. Operators have used hydraulic fracturing since the 1940s in more than 1 million wells in the US Its continued use is critically important to US oil and gas production. In episode 002 of the Oil and Gas Litigator video podcast, Texas oil and gas lawyer David Ammons explains why causation is likely to be the key issue in this litigation concerning hydraulic fracturing. To establish causation, a landowner must prove that an oil and gas operator caused chemicals contained in frac fluid to migrate into a drinking water source resulting in property damage or physical illness, or both. Because fracking takes place thousands of feet below water aquifers, it is incredibly difficult to prove that chemicals in frac fluid flowed through thousands of feet of relatively impermeable rock to a nearby aquifer. The landowner needs testimony from a variety of experts, including chemists, industry experts, and hydrologists. If you have any comments or feedback about anything covered in episode 002, I would very ...