EPA in 1987 found fracking fouled well water in W.Va

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

A 1987 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finding, which the agency has ignored for years, concluded that hydraulic fracturing of a deep natural gas well in Jackson County, W.Va., contaminated groundwater and private wells.

Although the gas drilling industry has repeatedly claimed that such "fracking" operations in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale natural gas fields pose no threat to rural underground aquifers, groundwater and drinking water wells, EPA investigators concluded a gas well drilled and fracked by the Kaiser Gas Co. in 1982 did contaminate groundwater.

The EPA finding was unearthed by Environmental Working Group, which conducted a year-long investigation of the incident and released a report on the finding, "Cracks in the Facade," today.

According to the 35-page report by EWG, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that does health and environmental research, several abandoned natural gas wells near the more than 4,000 foot deep Kaiser gas well could have been conduits that allowed fracking gel to migrate into a water well. The gel is a common chemical additive in fracking fluid, which is pumped deep underground under high pressure to crack the shale formation and release the gas it contains.





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[Kingofalldems]

1. Kick and Rec one time for the teabaggers and their sympathizers

[truedelphi]

2. However the Bush/Cheney 2005 oil and gas and energy bill removes any

Liability from the shoulders of the Big and not so big energy firms.

The water's ruined, so what? In another 200,0000 generations of humans, the stronger humans will be able to drink kerosene/natural gas and ethers.

[pam4water]

5. Sigh I already can't drink the tap water where I like in PA and the water I buy comes form a sight

that will probably be fracked too.

[truedelphi]

8. That is really awful.

Just watching the movie "Gaslands" had me so steamed I'd have wrung Ed Rendell or any other human's neck if I'd rung across them in the following month.

And I live in California, miles from where this is happening.

Although the pesticides from the "lovely, natural vineyards" are seriously hurting the water here, at least the usual remedies can filter the pollutants out, unlike when a person tries to deal with the firggin' fracking toxins.

[izquierdista]

6. Don't you see the benefits?

Put this water in a pot, light it with a match, and it will boil itself! Great for when the electricity is out and you can't use the microwave. :evilgrin:

[truedelphi]

3. K & R. n/t

[pam4water]

4. The fracking companies are running some hard ads here. About for families are being united because

their sons can find jobs in Pennsylvania at the fracking well. There are high production and do pull at the heart strings just right. They will win some people over :(

[JAnthony]

7. Our wonderful land, resources, water, air and the nation that once was

ONE of the best democracies in the world...

Is now WHOLLY OWNED by Big Gas and OIL companies that pay little or no taxes!

It is disgusting, no nauseating, no depressing,

all of the above

Meanwhile our Democratic (once popular) President can do nothing to stop this!

K+R

[Turbineguy]

9. This is why the EPA should be shut down!

If there was no EPA, they would not bother people with such trivial matters!

And remember: Vote republican or stay the fuck home!

[Champion Jack]

10. K & R