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A Pennsylvania Village Is Without Water After Fracking Allegedly Destroyed Its Wells
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| 01/07/2012
| AP
Posted on 01/07/2012 2:29:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: cripplecreek
I grew up in Brighton, on Kensington road which climbs the highest hill in Livingston county, where the GM proving grounds sit. Half way up the hill and directly across the road from my FILs property is a very large gas well that was put in back in the early eighties.. That well was a large find, the guy who’s property it sits on is very well paid each month, so I can’t believe it is only getting enough gas to compare to what you just mentioned. Rumors were floated about how much gas they found there, but I remember it was enough to put in a “sweetener plant” for it, whatever that is.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:06:27 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Sacajaweau
If you first define intolerable levels of a substance to a very low level, then test old wells for those, of course you are going to come up with “poisonous water”. I part per billion of arsenic? O NO, we can’t drink that. They don’t tell you how many parts per billion of “poison” are in potatoes and other “healthy” vegetables and fruit
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:06:56 PM PST
by
runninglips
(Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
To: HiTech RedNeck
When I live near Cadillac Michigan I knew a guy who had a system that let the gas bubble off and burn in a couple of gas lamps in his yard. The water itself was fine.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:10:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: waynesa98
Agree. Here in the land of the freerepublic, nearly all accept this story as the truth. Color me very skeptical.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:11:50 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
(No court will save us from ourselves.)
To: TLEIBY308
I just ate some beans....
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:14:24 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: SeekAndFind
More agenda driven science by the EPA.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:16:53 PM PST
by
bray
(Ride Santorum back to Sanity)
To: Abathar
There's gas under the whole lower peninsula of Michigan.
On nights with low clouds I can see the flares all around me here in Jackson county.
The bright light in the center was where a new drilling rig was at the time I took the pic.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:17:06 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: cripplecreek
This is where Gaia farts.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:18:40 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: Jacquerie
Not so sure you would get a majority agreement that this is a “substantially accurate” story, if you took a poll. But it sure would be nice to ferret out the details of the controversy.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:22:05 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: SeekAndFind
Everyone knows that fracking causes earthquakes, sunspots, warts, acne and cancer.
Oh, and dementia in leftists.
To: bray
A Pennsylvania Village Is Without Water After Fracking Allegedly Destroyed Its Wells What?
Did all the rain barrels explode?
"Artesian wells" drilled in solid rock are not all they're cracked up to be. I've seen some of the worst "drinking water" in my life come from some of these low producing deep wells that can contain sulfur, iron, uranium, radon gas etc. Oh Yeah! It's got minerals.
People spend thousands of dollars on this crap water. I think if they just treated their rain water they'd be way ahead and have better water.
It rains 40+" a year here.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:32:17 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: SeekAndFind
Is this not in the place where they had the well blow out????
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:36:25 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What is the difference in Newts, Perry,s and Willard,s positions on Amnesty.)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Wells can vary widely in quality even in a small area. The church I go to has well water with sulfur like a skunk. Neighbors three doors down from the church have a well and it’s clear and clean, and no it’s not due to extra water treatment.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:36:29 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: SeekAndFind
More background info. if anyone will google,
DEP’s Dimock Decision Based On 2010 Agreement, Not Water Quality
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:39:01 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: TLEIBY308
I saw video on you tube where a drill rig burned down after catching fire when it hit a gas pocket at 900 feet. Some places have had gas in the water for 125 years and that is before drilling.
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:39:09 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: waynesa98
Fracking fluids are basically salad dressing with ultra fine sand.
Ranch?
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posted on
01/07/2012 3:47:02 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: SeekAndFind
are they sure someone did not dump something that made its way into the ground water and the EPA is using this to shore up THEIR contention that Fracking is bad
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:07:36 PM PST
by
jrd
To: HiTech RedNeck
You know that the statists in both parties will have made that illegal without a 15 year environmental study and many tens of thousands spent on the proper licenses.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:23:17 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: mountainlion
Fracking fluids are basically salad dressing with ultra fine sand. Ranch? Of course not. Thousand Island.
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posted on
01/07/2012 4:23:37 PM PST
by
Dysart
(#Changeitback)
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