Cabot’s Methodology Links Tainted Water Wells to Gas Fracking By Mark Drajem and Jim Efstathiou Jr. - Oct 2, 2012 Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-02/cabot-s-methodology-links-tainted-water-wells-to-gas-fracking.html
[Excerpted] Methane in two Pennsylvania water wells has a chemical fingerprint that links it to natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing, evidence that such drilling can pollute drinking water.
Chart: EPA Data Shows Marcellus Gas in Water Wells
Cabot Oil & Gas, which used hydraulic fracturing to tap gas reserves in the Dimock, Pennsylvania area, maintains that its operations haven’t caused homeowners’ contamination, and its scientists say further analyses show this gas is not from the Marcellus either.
The data, collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are significant because the composition of the gas --its isotopic signature -- falls into a range Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (COG) had identified as that of the Marcellus Shale, which it tapped through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
“The EPA data falls squarely in the Marcellus space” established by Cabot’s scientists, said Rob Jackson, an environmental scientist at Duke University. That evidence backs up his findings linking gas drilling and water problems in the town of Dimock, applying the very methodology that Cabot established to try to debunk it, he said....
Majia here: Fracking is not a solution for our energy woes because it contaminates drinking water, it consumes vast amounts of fresh water, and it causes earthquakes.
We must consider these risks seriously because lack of fresh water is even more of a national security risk than cheap energy.
FRACKING
Aug 15, 2012
Transparency in Natural Gas Fracking: NOT! Fracking Hazards
Obscured in Failure to Disclose Wells By Benjamin Haas, Jim Polson, Phil Kuntz and
Ben Elgin - Aug 14, 2012 ...
Jul 10, 2012
Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of
drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red-hot
controversy over fracking in the Marcellus Shale, suggesting that drilling
waste and chemicals could ...
May 08, 2012
Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling,
Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/3/fracking_and_the_environment_natural_gasn.
Study: Fracking Chemicals Can ...
May 10, 2012
[Excerpt] "Last week's media coverage of the Obama
administration's newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on how
drilling companies would have to disclose the chemicals they use that it
largely overlooked the ...
Dec 09, 2011
EPA Ties Fracking, Pollution: Popular Drilling Technique
Blamed for Tainting Water Supply in Wyoming Town by Solomon and Gold Dec 9 2011
p. A1. These articles discuss different dimensions of problematic aspects of ...
Dec 18, 2011
Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes? Fracking Suspected in Rash
of Earthquakes in Unlikely Places By Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky,
AllGov 17 December 11 ...
Oct 21, 2011
The decision comes amid questions involving the drilling
practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which involves injecting
large amounts amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to unleash
natural gas ...
Nov 10, 2011
A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into
an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds
and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to
new ...
Apr 18, 2011
ONGOING ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE UPDATE TODAY THE NYT REPORTS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/science/earth/17gas.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23.
Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report ...
Apr 13, 2012
Quakes Caused by Fracking Waste. Quakes Caused By Waste From
Gas Wells, Study Finds.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150440356/quakes-caused-by-waste-from-gas-wells-study-finds.
[excerpt] "A dramatic increase in ...
Mar 22, 2012
...health care professionals are bound by a non-disclosure
agreement that not only forbids them from warning the community of water and
air pollution that may be caused by fracking, but which also forbids them from
telling ...
Jan 03, 2012
My summary: waste water contaminated with fracking fluid is
the byproduct of the process of fracking for natural gas. The ingredients in
fracking fluid are regarded as proprietary information by drillers and are not
released.
Jun 05, 2012
My greatest concern over fracking is the massive use of
fresh water and the potential contamination of underground aquifers. It is
simply untenable that the US would allow the destruction of a non-renewable and
increasingly ...
Apr 18, 2012
The Cisco, Texas brothers who perfected the fracking process
recently sold a 70% share in their company for $3 billion to an Asian
conglomerate. Their biggest fun personal purchase so far is a $45 million
dollar ranch in ...
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