"State and industry officials said that not including Wyoming in the study is an acknowledgement by the Environmental Protection Agency that the state's "fracking" regulations are adequate and that there are no documented cases of fracking activities contaminating groundwater."
COMMENT:
If the federal government ignores the most obvious cases of hydraulic fracturing contamination, then industry and the gov can continue their ruse a bit longer, thereby sequestering the last few drops of their precious money-making resource at the expense of life on this planet.
In 2008, Gillette, Wyoming, an EPA test of water wells at 300 feet produced benzene at 1,200 ppb. There are no safe levels of benzene. It is a known human carcinogen. The water wells are located nearby a large gas field.
Today, the EPA continues to test water wells in Wyoming and continue to find nothing conclusive. The ruse continues. Where is our "People and Ecosystem Movement?" When is our revolution going to take place?
JEREMY PELZER
June 24, 2011
CHEYENNE-Federal environmental regulators have passed over Wyoming in a closely watched study of how hydraulic fracturing affects drinking water.
State and industry officials said that not including Wyoming in the study is an acknowledgement by the Environmental Protection Agency that the state's "fracking" regulations are adequate and that there are no documented cases of fracking activities contaminating groundwater.
Environmentalists, though, voiced skeptism over those claims.
On Thursday, the EPA picked seven areas around the country to investigate whether groundwater is affected by fracking, a procedure in which a mixture of sand and various fluids is pumped deep underground to fracture rock to create pathways for gas or oil to flow toward a well bore....continued....
