Can they stop trucking in water for flushing toilets?
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December 26, 2012: in passing,
July 26, 2012: I spoke too soon. Now ALL the tests are done. -- EPA. I guess the Dimockians weren't happy with "final" results, complained enough, and EPA went back in, this time testing for naturally occurring metals.
May 14, 2012: Final set of tests "clean." Case closed.
April 10, 2012: Second set of tests from Dimock are also "clean" -- EPA.
In August, 2012, court documents showed that residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania town who say their well water was poisoned by a gas driller agreed to a confidential settlement with Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. Soon afterward, the Department of Environmental Protection said Cabot had met its obligations under a 2010 consent agreement and will be permitted to put seven previously drilled wells in Dimock Township back in production. That's a rural area in northeastern Pennsylvania.September 15, 2012: And New Yorkers, who have never seen an oil well in the Bakken, are complaining about fracking. It looks like they got bigger problems closer to home. Google 70-foot sink hole over sewer in Brooklyn. August 23, 2012: Pennsylvania says oil company can now go back to work on Dimock area wells.
July 26, 2012: I spoke too soon. Now ALL the tests are done. -- EPA. I guess the Dimockians weren't happy with "final" results, complained enough, and EPA went back in, this time testing for naturally occurring metals.
May 14, 2012: Final set of tests "clean." Case closed.
April 10, 2012: Second set of tests from Dimock are also "clean" -- EPA.
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Initial results from samples of the first 11 of 60 water wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania, did not show contamination levels that could present a health concern, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 3 office in Philadelphia said on Mar. 15. Samples from 6 of the 11 wells showed the presence of methane, sodium, chromium, or bacteria, but in concentrations within the range for safe drinking water, it said.Link here.
Houston independent Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., which operates several natural gas wells in the area, said in a statement that it was pleased EPA’s data confirmed earlier findings that Dimock well water meets all regulatory standards.
Do you remember this story? This was first posted back in January when the EPA was trucking water into Dimock, to flush toilets over fears of health concerns.
Crazy, but what can one expect when the public education in our country has been teaching everything should evaluated on emotions and pleasure rather rational thought.
ReplyDeleteThe grand plan to turn people into lemmings and sheepople. They are much easier to control that way. They are told what to think and do. Easy to do once the information to them is controlled. No independent thought allowed.