'Fracking' chemical found in town's aquifer

[IDemo]

By Abrahm Lustgarten
updated 2 hours 39 minutes ago 2011-11-10T21:34:55

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.

Last year -- after warning residents not to drink or cook with the water and to ventilate their homes when they showered -- the EPA drilled the monitoring wells to get a more precise picture of the extent of the contamination.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45246260/ns/us_news-environment/

[doc03]

1. The oil and gas companies are in the process of

buying up all the gas and oil rights in eastern Ohio and we have been bombarded with ads telling us how safe fracking it is. I signed myself this week for a gas and oil lease, small landowners like myself either take the money up front and a 17% royalty or they just take your gas and oil rights and give you a 12% royalty. They are claiming eastern Ohio has more oil and gas under it then Saudi Arabia. They are using that BS to make people think we will get lower gas prices and it will make the US energy independent. I have a bunch of neighbors that have become instant millionaires. Big 4x4 pickups, Escalades and Cadillac CTSs are selling like hot cakes.

[femrap]

2. fuck fracking. nt

[xchrom]

3. WOOPS - there it is. Nt

[Hydra]

4. Doing the wrong thing

When we have the sun sitting in the sky all day.

They really will wind up killing all of us, and every organism on earth one disaster at a time.

[wtmusic]

5. Damn that EPA...protecting Dick Cheney's Wyoming Water!! nt

[Nihil]

6. That bit still gets me ...

> after warning residents not to drink or cook with the water
> and to ventilate their homes when they showered

:wow:

And yet there are still nominally sensible people who prefer
to sell out for short-term profit, thus willingly promoting
long-term (*really* long-term) pollution ... not so much of
the homo sapiens, more of the homo $apien$ ...

:banghead:

[Scuba]

7. Gee, no one could have predicted... oh, wait. Yeah they did. n/t

[txlibdem]

8. Ohio = PA version 2.0???

I wouldn't want to be able to light my kitchen sink water on fire!

To hell with natural gas fracking.