Posted on 01/07/2012 5:59:10 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation.
Only 24 hours after promising them water, EPA officials informed residents of Dimock that a tanker truck wouldn't be coming after all -- an about-face that left them furious, confused and let down -- and, once again, scrambling for water for bathing, washing dishes and flushing toilets.
Agency officials would not explain why they reneged on their promise, or say whether water would be delivered at some point.
"We are actively filling information gaps and determining next steps in Dimock. We have made no decision at this time to provide water," EPA spokeswoman Betsaida Alcantara said in an email to The Associated Press.
It's not clear how many wells in the rural community of Dimock Township were affected by the drilling. The state has found that at least 18 residential water wells were polluted. Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., which was banned in 2010 from drilling in a 9-square-mile area around the village, maintains that it is not responsible for the pollution and that the water is safe.
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When are people going to wake the hell up to this administration?
And it doesn't bother them in the least that they said two different things in the same sentence.
In a world where spilled milk is treated the same as oil by the EPA its a little hard to know what anyone is thinking.
So....they all DIE for lack of water???
What’s the voting stats on this area??
probably heavily Republican.......red
Seems the WH needs a PA based controversy to remind New Hampshire voters what an evil bastage Santorum is...after all he supports shale gas exploration in PA. /s
Is this the right county for this township?
http://www.susqco.com/subsites/gov/election/default.htm
If so...my suspicions may be correct.
I wonder which PA politician the Obama administration is sending a message too....
It’s pretty simple, Lisa P. Jackson is a sociopathic racist, and she controls the entire tone of the EPA.
Races in Dimock township:
White Non-Hispanic: 98.6%
2011 Muni elections had low turnout:
0008 DIMOCK TWP - 008 846 registered. 322 ballots cast. 38.06% turnout.
The town votes Lean Republican, and in total there has only been a single $250 political donation to a Federal election campaign in the last 18 years.
They don’t exist except as a source for wealth extraction through fines and taxation.
And now they will be sieged out of house and home.
A Pennsylvania Village Is Without Water After Fracking Allegedly Destroyed Its Wells
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.
I did not put that hole in your pot. Number one, when I borrowed the pot from you it already had a hole in it, number two, when I returned it there was no hole in it, and number three, I never borrowed that pot from you at all.
Tom Marino (Rep) beat out Carney (Rat) in last election. Barletta(Rep) beat out Kujo(Rat) in adjoining district.
Clearly, a whole town will have to change its vote leanings if they want some water.
ping
Sounds like a opportunity for the POU (Point of Use) water treatment folks out there. I don’t think there is anything in that water that can’t be simply treated, perhaps with ozone followed up by GAC. Why sit around and wait for the EPA to save you and then whine helplessly when they don’t? Can you imagine how expensive trucks of EPA water will be by the time it finds it’s way through Government contracting procedures?
I don't know...could it be...they're not BLACK enough?
The EPA calls lots of things “pollution”...
Obama needs as many campaign issues as he can get.
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