EPA says water contamination linked to fracking (SciAm)

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In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fracking-linked-water-contamination-federal-agency&print=true

Shocking, I know...

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1. Fracking poison waste water, outlawed in PA, being trucked to Ohio, to poison wells.

Roughly 55 percent of the brine injected into Ohio wells comes from “out of district,” and probably from Pennsylvania, where officials recently banned the dumping of brine in that state’s streams.

David Hill, who owns the Devco well and is president of Byesville-based oil and gas company David R. Hill Inc., said it’s common to see trucks with Pennsylvania plates.

“We have to get rid of this water responsibly,” he said.

State inspectors have issued 378 violations at injection wells since 2001 for problems, including spills, leaking tanks and pipes, and wastewater pooled within spill-prevention areas.

“We’ve done over 1,000 investigations since the early ’80s,” Tomastik said. “Most of the contamination was surface contamination.”

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/09/25/fracking-wastewater-floods-ohio.html

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2. Jeeeze, that's a new wrinkle. Thanks for the link. (nt)

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3. Since Kasich Ohio is open for business n/t