Right before Christmas, there was another study from Wyoming showing that
fracking doesn’t pollute drinking water.
Once again, environmentalists have been discredited with their theory
that the decades-old method of extracting natural gas via hydraulic
fracturing isn’t messing with people’s water. In 2012, the Environmental
Protection Agency declared that they were no longer going to supply
Dimock, PA with alterative drinking water supplies after their review
found the level of contaminates were naturally occurring, and that
treatment systems could reduce the level of contaminants in a handful of
homes (all five) where they did have some health concerns. Yet, their
overall investigation found that the levels of containments didn’t reach
levels that would require further federal action. In short, fracking
wasn’t polluting the water. Moreover,
a Yale study later confirmed that fracking doesn’t pollute ground water.
Wyoming regulators have found hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, did not likely contaminate water supplies in the town of
Pavillion four years after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
conducted its own botched investigation.
State officials published findings Monday showing groundwater contamination near Pavillion was not likely caused by fracking,
but instead by gas that naturally seeped into groundwater wells. The
state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) says the “[e]vidence
suggests that upward gas seepage… was happening naturally before gas
well development.”
“It is unlikely that hydraulic fracturing fluids have risen to
shallower depths intercepted by water- supply wells,” DEQ writes in its
30-month investigation of Pavillion’s water.
“Evidence does not indicate
that hydraulic fracturing fluids have risen to shallow depths
intersected by water-supply wells.”
“The likelihood that the hydraulic fracture well stimulation
treatments… employed in the Pavillion Gas Field have led to fluids
interacting with shallow groundwater… is negligible,” DEQ adds.
Folks, this is good news.
Right before Christmas, there was another study from Wyoming showing that fracking doesn’t pollute drinking water.
Once again, environmentalists have been discredited with their theory
that the decades-old method of extracting natural gas via hydraulic
fracturing isn’t messing with people’s water. In 2012, the Environmental
Protection Agency declared that they were no longer going to supply
Dimock, PA with alterative drinking water supplies after their review
found the level of contaminates were naturally occurring, and that
treatment systems could reduce the level of contaminants in a handful of
homes (all five) where they did have some health concerns. Yet, their
overall investigation found that the levels of containments didn’t reach
levels that would require further federal action. In short, fracking
wasn’t polluting the water. Moreover, a Yale study later confirmed that fracking doesn’t pollute ground water.
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