[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: ISSUES: FRACKING : ENERGY : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: EPA Must Come Clean on Fracking Contamination (Op-Ed)
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- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 07:23:55 -0400 (EDT)
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ENVIRONMENT: ISSUES: FRACKING :
ENERGY :
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
EPA Must Come Clean on Fracking Contamination (Op-Ed)
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EPA Must Come Clean on Fracking Contamination (Op-Ed)
Kate Sinding
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
July 31, 2013 11:29pm ET
Live Science
http://www.livescience.com/38594-fracking-risks-revealed.html
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Recently, NRDC learned that regional staff at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) produced an internal presentation indicating
methane was released during natural gas drilling and "fracking" operations
in Dimock, Pa. resulting in "significant" and possibly long-term damage
to the water quality of a drinking-water source for 19 families.
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That finding emerged in a ground-breaking story by Neela Banerjee on July
27 in the Los Angeles Times, which reported that internal EPA documents
detailing local methane contamination were presented to the highest levels
of regional agency staff in the spring of 2012. Yet EPA closed its
investigation of contaminated drinking water supplies in Dimock just a few
months later, declaring that it was no longer necessary for residents to
be provided with alternative, safe, drinking-water supplies. As a result
of that conclusion, mainstream press have widely reported that EPA has
found the water in Dimock "safe" to drink.
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What's more troubling is that the internal EPA report suggests the agency
effectively declared Dimock residents' drinking-water safe despite
concerns among EPA consultants and staff that the aquifer had been
contaminated by high levels of methane from the Marcellus Shale, resulting
in "significant damage to the water quality."
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So, why would EPA decide to terminate its fracking investigation in Dimock
without making public any analysis of the supporting data, while keeping
internal dissenting views a secret? And why a year later hasn't EPA
investigated those views further to determine the true level of risk?
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Troubling trend at EPA
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Unfortunately, what appears to have happened in Dimock is just the latest
in a larger, troubling trend in which EPA has failed to act on science
studies from controversial fracking cases across the country. Instead, the
agency appears to be systematically pulling back from its high-profile
fracking investigations.
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EPA's recent spate of gas-drilling investigation pullbacks calls into
serious question the agency's commitment to conducting an impartial,
comprehensive assessment of the risks fracking presents to drinking water
a first-of-its-kind study that is now in its fourth year, with initial
results now promised in 2014 (the EPA recently announced that it had
delayed the expected final date of this study by two years).
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The federal government has a responsibility to protect citizens in
communities that are suffering consequences from fracking, and to give
them the full facts. It owes the American people a full and fair
investigation of every case that can help to answer some of the vexing
scientific questions as to whether and if so, how fracking and related
activities contaminate drinking water.
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Sadly, EPA's recent pattern of activity suggests neither has been
happening.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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