I smell a Rat. Maybe it was another act of God!!!!!!

[white cloud]

Where is Joe Barton Maybe he can help these people feelings by sending another apologize.

Texas Officials Clear Gas Driller of Harming Water

In a meeting this morning punctuated by harsh denunciations of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Railroad Commission voted unanimously to clear a natural gas driller, Range Resources, of charges that it contaminated two water wells in Parker County.

"We'll see which is the real protection agency, and I'd say it's the Railroad Commission of Texas," Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones said after the vote. The EPA, she said, had been too "hasty" in accusing Range of contaminating an aquifer roughly one mile above its drilling site in the Barnett Shale. The case acquired a high profile after the EPA announced in December that it was ordering Range to fix the homeowners' water problems, effectively stepping in above the Railroad Commission, which was still investigating at the time.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-energy/energy/texas-officials-clear-gas-driller-of-harming-water/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=alerts&utm_campaign=News%20Alert:%20Subscriptions

[plumbob]

1. Oh, those whiners in Parker County! Here they are, getting "mineral"

water put directly into their houses and not a thank you in sight!

How ungrateful!















Right?

[sonias]

2. What you smell is the corruption of money

The current Texas Railroad Commission wouldn't recognize real science if it bit them in the ass. And unless it was their own personal drinking water that was contaminated, could give a rat's ass about anyone else's either. They're all about protecting business and the contributions they get from those same industries.

Go EPA - stand firm! Protect the Clean Water Act and the drinking water for Texans who obviously have no voice in our "supposed" regulatory commissions.

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