Leaked EPA document raises questions about fracking pollution

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http://grist.org/news/leaked-epa-document-raises-questions-about-fracking-pollution/

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The EPA isn’t looking too hard at what Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is up to behind this fence, or anywhere else.


The EPA doesn’t seem very interested in finding out whether fracking pollutes groundwater. The latest indication of this emerged over the weekend in the Los Angeles Times.

Residents of the small town of Dimock in northeastern Pennsylvania have long been convinced that Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. was poisoning their drinking water by fracking the land around them. In July of last year, the EPA announced that although water from some local wells contained “naturally occurring” arsenic, barium, and manganese, the agency was ending its investigation there without fingering the any culprits.

Now we find out that staff at a regional EPA office were worried about the role of fracking in polluting the town’s water, but their concerns appear to have been ignored by their bosses.

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1. Get thee to the greatest page! Fracking is poison. n/t

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2. Shorter version: "The EPA doesn’t seem very interested"

(Pedantically, that only applies to "The EPA" above a certain pay grade (right up to the top)
but the end effect is as stated.)