The New York-based Toxics Targeting went through the Department of Environmental Conservation’s own database of hazardous substances spills over the past thirty years. They found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Many of the cases remain unresolved. The findings are contrary to repeated government assurances [...]
Read Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 31, 2009:
When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator described the problem as “an anomaly.” But at the time he made that statement to ProPublica, that [...]
Officials in three states pin water woes on gas drilling by ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten:
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to [...]
Energy company tests theory of gas seepage into Pa. water wells by Tom Wilber, February 10, 2009:
Will reaping the riches of the Marcellus Shale carry threats of random explosions? Scientists and industry officials are working on an answer in Dimock Township, Pa., where gas originating 1,500 feet deep or more seeped into water supplies feeding [...]
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