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Impacted Landowners Demand EPA Revise Flawed Fracking Study
Wenonah Hauter | October 30, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Scientific Advisory Board met this week to review the agencys draft assessment of the impact of fracking on drinking water resources, but the largely academic exercise got a dose of reality from residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas who have fought for years to get U.S. EPA to act.
Inexplicably, their cases of contamination were excluded in the thousands of pages that make up the EPAs assessment. Given only five minutes each, the residents demanded that the EPA stop ignoring their cases.
Ray Kemble, an affected landowner and former gas industry worker, testified, In 2008, gas drilling caused my water to become poisoned. The Pennsylvania DEP and the EPA confirmed this contamination, but abandoned us in 2012 and did not even include us in their long-term study. I am here today to demand that EPA recognize us, include our case in this study, and reopen the investigation.
John Fenton, a rancher and affected landowner in Pavillion also spoke out. When EPA launched its national study of frackings drinking water impacts, we thought theyd look first here in Pavillion where theyd already found pollution. But instead they ignored us without explanation. Science means taking the facts as they are. But EPA seems to be intent on finding the facts to support the conclusion theyve already reachedfracking is safe.
....big snip....
Some of the Scientific Advisory Board members are listening, with one member describing the EPAs topline finding as out of left field and a non sequitur relative to the body of the report. But at the same time, the oil and gas industry is well represented on the boardseveral repeatedly used we and industry interchangeably as they chimed in in defense of fracking.
The EPA has been unresponsive and is failing to uphold its own basic mission to protect human health and the environment. Its time for the agency to finally step up and serve the people, not the oil and gas industry. They could start by having a face-to-face with Administrator Gina McCarthy and affected individuals, rather than pretending they dont exist. And the Obama administration must stop greenwashing fracking and acknowledge that its a dirty, polluting source of energy that harms our water, our climate, and our communities.
http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/30/epa-flawed-fracking-report/
Wenonah Hauter | October 30, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Scientific Advisory Board met this week to review the agencys draft assessment of the impact of fracking on drinking water resources, but the largely academic exercise got a dose of reality from residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas who have fought for years to get U.S. EPA to act.
Inexplicably, their cases of contamination were excluded in the thousands of pages that make up the EPAs assessment. Given only five minutes each, the residents demanded that the EPA stop ignoring their cases.
Ray Kemble, an affected landowner and former gas industry worker, testified, In 2008, gas drilling caused my water to become poisoned. The Pennsylvania DEP and the EPA confirmed this contamination, but abandoned us in 2012 and did not even include us in their long-term study. I am here today to demand that EPA recognize us, include our case in this study, and reopen the investigation.
John Fenton, a rancher and affected landowner in Pavillion also spoke out. When EPA launched its national study of frackings drinking water impacts, we thought theyd look first here in Pavillion where theyd already found pollution. But instead they ignored us without explanation. Science means taking the facts as they are. But EPA seems to be intent on finding the facts to support the conclusion theyve already reachedfracking is safe.
....big snip....
Some of the Scientific Advisory Board members are listening, with one member describing the EPAs topline finding as out of left field and a non sequitur relative to the body of the report. But at the same time, the oil and gas industry is well represented on the boardseveral repeatedly used we and industry interchangeably as they chimed in in defense of fracking.
The EPA has been unresponsive and is failing to uphold its own basic mission to protect human health and the environment. Its time for the agency to finally step up and serve the people, not the oil and gas industry. They could start by having a face-to-face with Administrator Gina McCarthy and affected individuals, rather than pretending they dont exist. And the Obama administration must stop greenwashing fracking and acknowledge that its a dirty, polluting source of energy that harms our water, our climate, and our communities.
http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/30/epa-flawed-fracking-report/
The video shows some very compelling testimony by one of the impacted citizens, Ray Kemble.
The truly disturbing overtake of our govt by Moneyed Interests is on full display here. These citizens testifying, begging the EPA to reopen their flawed study, should have already been protected by the EPA.
As Hope says in the video above, "Its a difficult thing to watch as an American, this kind of cover-up, this level of cover-up."
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