Federal Agency Cancels Water Delivery to Pennsylvania Town

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[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.

[mo]

....hmmmm...well...they’ll have one more chance this fall to pull the Obama lever...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why of course, any measurable amount of a contaminant means the water is unsafe!

[HiTech RedNeck]

GAC? Great American Country? Governmental Advisory Committee? (Yeah, I know. Granulated activated charcoal.)

[HiTech RedNeck]

They’re not RAT enough.

[dfwgator]

To us .NET developers, GAC means Global Assembly Cache.

[flaglady47]

The question is, is the water really unsafe, or only deemed so by the EPA based on made up facts. Did they lie about the quality of the water?

[Mortrey]

Reminds me of the California water seizure that went on...can’t think of the county...where Sean Hannity did some reporting from.
They held water from the farmers out there. Ruined farm land—so that Pelosi and her ilk could snatch the land up for a song.
Anyone remember?

[lacrew]

“scrambling for water for bathing, washing dishes and flushing toilets. “.....The water is so polluted you can't flush a toilet with it? Either bad reporting, or somebody is exaggerating.

[Godwin1]

The people are white, American and may vote against the Leader. Screw them. Perhaps, in the long run, a good thing. Real Americans are in this Administration's bulls-eye. It is best we know, understand and be active in removing this despicable crowd from office next November.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red in Blue PA.

[mpackard]

Oregon, klammath falls

[Sea Parrot]

Oh hell, will bet there has been naturally occurring methane in the water all along.

I remember in Wyoming where lived several decades ago methane (NG) was in the water, run a sink full of it and could light the fumes off. We had little to none, but a neigbor 1/4 mile away has it bad and there was no drilling or fracking going on anywhere around the area. It had just always been that way.

[dennisw]

Lisa P. Jackson is a sociopathic racist>>>>>>

Like Eric Holder, just another racist tool of Obama’s. Her mission is to destroy the productive sectors of our economy which curiously enough are white dominated, such as gas/oil/coal production and electricity generation. Now she is trying to put independent truckers (95% white guys) out of business with absurd new requirements for their big rigs

[jpsb]

here in Texas it is not at all uncommon to have methane in a water well, drill a little deeper or get used to the smell. It is at all possible that someone is looking to make a little money suing the evil gas/oil company? Not enough facts in the article to determine just what is going on.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Oregon, klammath falls

I THINK these are two separate things, mpackard and Mortrey....

Jeff, can you help??

[Hoodat]

This may have something to do with their decision:

2008 Presidential Election Results - Susquehanna County, PA

Obama - 8,314
McCain - 10,551

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Jackson is the protege of avowed marxist/socialist Carol Browner, one of her predecessors and advisor to Obama.

Nuff said?

[dennisw]

EPA head Lia Jackson has never or rarely worked in the private sector where companies have to make profits. She is a creature of university jobs and Gov’t jobs. One of our new Obama style racist commissars who stomp all over productive private sector Americans

I think even under Mitt Romney we’ll get a lot more appointees in all agencies who have labored in the real world and are not just denizens of universities and Gov’t

[House Atreides]

“-maintains that it is not responsible for the pollution and that the water is safe.

And it doesn’t bother them in the least that they said two different things in the same sentence.”

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We should all remember that the whole source here is an AP story and we know how “honest” and “objective” their “reporting” is. Don’t fall for their trick of paraphrasing what folks have said in a manner meant totally to lead the readers to think that something was said which was not said.

This whole thing smells strongly of our wonderful EPA working in conjunction with the AP and an “environmental” group to advance an agenda. Expect to see further AP reporting on this environmental group’s noble efforts to deliver water to help poor victims of the evil natural gas industry.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, an interesting tidbit from IEEE this past November.....

Stray Methane But Not Fracking Fluids Found in Water near Wells