Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not To Drink Their Water

[superconnected]

The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation when showering or washing clothes in order to avoid the risk of an explosion.

The announcement accompanied results from a second round of testing and analysis in the town of Pavillion by Superfund investigators for the Environmental Protection Agency. Researchers found benzene, metals, naphthalene, phenols and methane in wells and in groundwater. They also confirmed the presence of other compounds that they had tentatively identified last summer and that may be linked to drilling activities.

"Last week it became clear to us that the information that we had gathered" "was going to potentially result in a hazard -- result in a recommendation to some of you that you not continue to drink your water," Martin Hestmark, deputy assistant regional administrator for ecosystems protection and remediation with the EPA in Denver, told a crowd of about 100 gathered at a community center in Pavillion Tuesday night. "We understand the gravity of that."

More at:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/02-1

[Parche]

1. isnt that where dickhead cheney lives

quick dick drink the water....:rofl::hi:

[Lucky 13]

4. No, Cheney lives in a mansion just outside the DC metro area.

[bobbolink]

2. I was just rewatching Erin Brockovitch yesterday.

Isn't it interesting how we keep replaying the same scenes, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over..........

[TwilightGardener]

3. We don't need no stinking EPA out here in the rugged West!

They're trampling our FREEDOM to have our faucet water blow up.

[Hannah Bell]

5. capitalism = death cult