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.
Posted on 01/07/2012 2:29:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where a natural gas driller has been accused of tainting water wells with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promising to deliver fresh water.
Homeowners in Dimock Township have been without a reliable supply of clean water since Houston-based driller Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. stopped making daily deliveries more than a month ago.
Three Dimock residents say the EPA told them Friday it's hiring a private contractor to deliver water to their homes about 20 miles south of the New York state line. The EPA says no decision has been made.
Cabot has been blamed for polluting an aquifer but denies responsibility for the contamination.
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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.
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
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.
Agree. Here in the land of the freerepublic, nearly all accept this story as the truth. Color me very skeptical.
I just ate some beans....
More agenda driven science by the EPA.
This is where Gaia farts.
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.
Oh, and dementia in leftists.
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.
Is this not in the place where they had the well blow out????
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.
More background info. if anyone will google,
DEP’s Dimock Decision Based On 2010 Agreement, Not Water Quality
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.
Ranch?
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.
Of course not. Thousand Island.
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