US Sues Exxon Fracker in Pennsylvania Over Polluted Drinking Water

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http://www.alternet.org/fracking/us-sues-exxon-fracker-pennsylvania-over-polluted-drinking-water



The United States sued Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy, claiming its hydraulic fracking has polluted public drinking waters in Pennsylvania with toxic wastes.

The federal lawsuit was filed almost simultaneously with reports from ABC , CBS and The Associated Press that claimed a "landmark federal study" showed "no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site."

Both the "landmark" study and the federal lawsuit involve fracking in the Marcellus Shale formation.

The results of the study, done on a contract from the Department of Energy, were called preliminary. It alleged that the toxic chemicals that oil companies injected into the ground to force natural gas or oil out of it stayed below the aquifer from which Pennsylvanians pump drinking water.

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1. Well that's good news.

Now, after a decade of litigation, Exxon might have to pay 0.01% of their annual profits in fines.

[Champion Jack]

2. It should be noted that the "landmark" well study

Only studied one well.
That's it .....one
The other thing that the study showed and was confidently buried in any articles about the "study" is that the well caused fractures of over 1800 ft, three times more than the industry claims.