LA Times: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study

[kpete]

A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that - once again - the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking&quot groundwater contamination, this time in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

Though EPA said Dimock's water wasn't contaminated by fracking in a 2012 election year desk statement, internal documents obtained by LA Times reporter Neela Banerjee show regional EPA staff members saying the exact opposite among friends.

"In an internal EPA PowerPoint presentation...staff members warned their superiors that several wells had been contaminated with methane and substances such as manganese and arsenic, most likely because of local natural gas production," writes Banerjee.

"The presentation, based on data collected over 4 1/2 years at 11 wells around Dimock, concluded that 'methane and other gases released during drilling (including air from the drilling) apparently cause significant damage to the water quality.' The presentation also concluded that 'methane is at significantly higher concentrations in the aquifers after gas drilling and perhaps as a result of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) and other gas well work," Banerjee further explained.


http://desmogblog.com/2013/07/29/obama-epa-censored-fracking-water-contamination-study-dimock-pennsylvania
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa-dimock-20130728,0,4847442.story

[Berlum]

1. Fracksters, Inc. are f*cking up the US of A

to further enrich the already rich

[life long demo]

2. I've watched Gaslands and isn't Dimock one of the

locations focused on? Excellent doc.

[Octafish]

3. Well, we can't let a little thing like cancer get in the way of progress now, can we?

Money to be made. Elections to be, uh, won.