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Residents: EPA promises to send fresh water to Pa. town with tainted wells
My water is supplied by a well. I’d be pretty pissed off if someone poisoned it.
I’d almost wonder if the fuel extraction company volunteered to do that (not hugely expensive) and the EPA basically said no, we want this to be a Superfund case with all the obese weight of Uncle Sam on it?
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Fracking may have caused the contamination, but it's by no means certain. And when did the EPA turn into a welfare agency? Oh, never mind. I answered that one myself.
Rock formations in that country hold all kinds of methane. Some water well drillers will not drill in certain areas due to risk of gas fire. Fracking goes on at incredible depths below any water structures and the bore holes are so sealed that cross contamination is, for all practical purposes, impossible.
I didn't see that there IS a problem with the water/wells. It sounds like a "suggestion" that there "may" be.
More agenda driven science by the EPA.
Oh, and dementia in leftists.
Is this not in the place where they had the well blow out????
More background info. if anyone will google,
DEP’s Dimock Decision Based On 2010 Agreement, Not Water Quality
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The bottom line for me:
If the EPA is involved, I don’t believe a word of it.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation.
Only 24 hours after promising them water, EPA officials informed residents of Dimock that a tanker truck wouldn't be coming after all -- an about-face that left them furious, confused and let down -- and, once again, scrambling for water for bathing, washing dishes and flushing toilets.
Agency officials would not explain why they reneged on their promise, or say whether water would be delivered at some point.
Companies need to spend money ahead of time documenting baseline conditions BEFORE putting a bit in the ground. If this operation is in coal country, just the pumping of groundwater from shallow wells that penetrate coal seams can release methane. There are ways to analyze the gas to determine where it originates, but prevention before drilling is the best method.
Then there is the possibility that new water wells to support drilling infrastructure (from drilling make-up water to water for employee trailers) can lower the water table releasing methane from coal seams. So though fracking itself may not have caused pollution, increased human activity in the area may have upset the balance. I’ve seen this happen in Northern New Mexico so have an idea that this, rather than fracking, may be the cause.
They do this all the time in Texas, too. They poison water wells. One guy could torch his faucet gas “water.” It is a huge problem the industry likes to pretend is a “conspiracy theory.” LOL This country is insane.
You can’t run this country and economy without energy; you can’t live without clean water and air. Unfortunately, we have the radical water melons always waiting in the wings to make things much worse instead of solving the problems. On the other side we have the hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil profit is all that matters, energy industry supporters. It boils down to stupid versus evil. There is no good will and common sense permitted.
The article seems a bit skimpy on details.
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