Not from the well Victoria Switzer. I believe she contaimnated her well deliberatly. But the other wells, yes. We have documented methane naturally occuring in water wells for over 100 years. It has to be dealt with properly, but this was a scam following a bad cement job on a well. It is not a hydraulic fracturing issue and I would welcome a hydraulically fractured well on my property with a water well, as have hundred of thousands of others.
http://nyshalegasnow.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-really-happened-in-dimock-pa.html
Reading closely, we find that a private consultant, who earlier did pre-drilling water tests paid for by Cabot, is now working for the litigating homeowners. In Spring and Summer 2010, this consultant found “positive test results” for certain toxic chemicals — hydrocarbons such as ethyl benzene, toluene, and xylene, and antifreezes such as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol — within basically the same set of domestic water wells that are already known to have suffered methane infiltration.
If you read this and follow-up articles really closely, you would also see that the elevated levels of hydrocarbons were found in “almost everybody” tested along Carter Road, while the elevated levels of the antifreezes were found in only one well — that of new anti-fracking crusader, Victoria Switzer.
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But then there was more. A week later, on 9-22-2010, the original reporter Legere did a follow-up story headlined, “Cabot: Dimock Water Contaminated Before Drilling…”
Maybe she is perpetrating a fraud. I have no problem admitting my perspective is limited. I have tried to educate myself a little bit.
Do you agree with any of the following:
Fracking fluid is nasty stuff.
Millions of gallons get pumped in and about half is recovered afterwards. The rest remains...somewhere.
The recovered waste water is also nasty stuff that you sure would not want spilled around your house or dumped into any river near you.