From Pine View Farm

Everybody Must Get Fracked 1

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has promised to deliver water to a northeastern Pennsylvania village where a natural gas driller has been accused of tainting homeowners’ wells with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals, residents said Friday.

Homeowners in Dimock Township have been without a reliable supply of clean water since Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., the Houston-based drilling firm blamed for polluting their aquifer, stopped making daily deliveries more than a month ago.

And, as Atrios points out, the frackers are walking away, leaving the evul fedrul guvmint to pick up the pieces.

Remember, it was the Bushies who exempted the fracking frackers from clean air and water regulations.

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  1. George

    January 7, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Incentive for the government to remove all the exemptions. The Republicans love fracking but they want the government to spend less. Therefore, they cannot be in favor of making the US government hold the bag for spoilt water. Ha-ha, I’ve made a wee joke. Anyway, you change the requirements so those doing the fracking must include a complete list of chemicals used in their solutions, single samples of each and a sample of any final mixes used, for analytic comparative purposes when a water table is fouled. And all this would stop. All of a sudden the industry would discover it had better things to do. Like go overseas and try to do it there where even poorer locals couldn’t complain to the government.