Wyoming Residents W. Tainted Fracked Water Question Governor On How State Will Do EPA's Job
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Pavillion-area residents asked and got the EPA to investigate their well water four years ago. They say the water began to stink of chemicals around 2005, when Encana began hydraulic fracturing in the area.
A 2011 EPA draft report tied local groundwater contamination to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which is the petroleum industry practice of splitting open oil- and gas-bearing rock by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressure down well holes. Never before had the EPA blamed groundwater pollution on fracking, and environmentalists seized upon the report as proof that fracking is a threat.
Along with announcing that Wyoming was taking over the study, the governor's office and EPA also said last week that the federal agency no longer plans to have independent experts review the initial findings or finalize the report.
The EPA found no pathways for contamination to migrate from the strata beneath Pavillion from which gas is extracted to the somewhat shallower aquifer tapped by water wells, according to last week's joint release. There was no problem with how the study was proceeding, and EPA officials felt no pressure from politicians or the petroleum industry to change course, EPA spokesman Tom Reynolds said Wednesday.
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If by "rogue" you mean "detrimental to the good of the environment in general and the
well-being of life in particular" then yes, they are rogue.
If, however, you simply mean "good at following the policies being promoted (with or
without publicity) by the ruling administration" then they are doing just fine.
