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The State-owned utility also raised questions about why hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, would be permitted in protected water areas when providing drinking supplies was of "paramount importance". 
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A parliamentary inquiry has been told that wells for fracking to release natural gas could be drilled through public drinking water aquifers.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
A contentious activity - science seems unresolved about impact on water resources - do your students understand the process? Can they raise relevant questions about water security in relation to fracking?
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Fracking is still a very contentious mining practice and has raised concerns the world over. Now those concerns are are being raised here in Western Australia.
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