Spill Here, Spill Now, CSI Pennsylvania Dept. 0
Even as Governor Corbett continues giving Pennsylvania away to the gas companies, the gas companies give back–in kind:
The researchers sampled sampled the water from 68 wells in northeastern Pennsylvania and New York, and found methane in 85 percent of the wells.
When they fingerprinted the methane itself — comparing the chemistry of the methane in the water wells with that of the gas from natural gas wells in the region — “the signatures matched,” said Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change at Duke, one of the study’s authors.
If any of you watched the CSI episode in which a homeowner’s tap water burst into flames–that part at least was not fiction. It has happened, just not quite so spectacularly.
