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Experiment Shows Frack Water Kills Trees

What happens when scientific researchers pour gallons of frack fluid on a stand of trees? They die. The American Society of Agronomy just published their findings on this gruesome experiment. Two years after getting doused with frack water, more than half the trees had perished.

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