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January 21, 2013: Writer suggests EPA owes Wyoming an explanation. Don't hold your breath.
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... I assume the EPA is just hoping folks forget about this one....Link to trib.com.
Federal environmental regulators have once again lengthened their investigation into potential groundwater contamination at a west-central Wyoming natural gas field, riling the operator in the field and area landowners, who are both fed up with the delays.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday stretched to Sept. 30 [2013] the public comment period on its investigation of the natural gas field near Pavillion, its third such extension.
The agency is trying to discover if natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing contaminated groundwater near the town. Its draft report issued in December 2011 implicated drilling and specifically hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in contamination it found in test wells.
The announcement marks the third time the agency has extended a public comment period on the investigation, which first opened Dec. 14, 2011. The period was extended in early 2012 after the agency agreed to additional tests in the area by the U.S. Geological Survey, and again in October.
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