Gas leaks from shale wells rare

[theHandpuppet]

Read the whole article and tell me what y’all think. I don’t know.. . it reads like a CYA piece to me.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/08/05/gas-leaks-from-shale-wells-rare.html

Gas leaks from shale wells rare
By Spencer Hunt
The Columbus Dispatch
Monday August 5, 2013 5:58 AM

Minutes after Debby Kline flicked a lighter near a bathroom sink in her Portage County house in northeastern Ohio, she called the fire department.
A sink-to-ceiling flare erupted when she tried to light a candle on Dec. 21, she told a TV news show. State oil and gas regulators are still investigating what caused natural gas to bubble out of the faucet.
Kline’s Nelson Township house is within a half-mile of two Utica shale wells that state records show were drilled and fracked in October and November.
Videos of burning water in Ohio and Pennsylvania households have helped bring attention to shale drilling and fracking, but such incidents are rare. Most complaints associated with oil and gas drilling are about drinking-water wells that run dry or produce water that’s discolored, smelly or clogged with sediment….