i`m sure there`s a market for sodium,methane,chromium,and bacteria favored water...

Bottle it and make your state reps drink it.

cook with it, wash with it, bath with it...

to the "fracking" workers who drive by every day ... put up a few flags, say it's for the troops, etc. Whatever it takes to shame them into buying some lemonade from a cute kid.

and if you get sick well it is just a virus going around...Drill baby drill....frack baby frack.

Asking the question "did fracking do it" before it is established in detail what was done is just utter crap.

First question - what was in the water before this?
Second question - how has it changed? THIS IS IMPORTANT. If something wasn't there before (like methane) and is there now, even if it is at "safe" levels, it has appeared due to some change. If fracking is the only change being studied, they either you conclude fracking caused it or you do more research.
Third question, if there are changes - what caused them (not did so-and-so cause them)?

It's the difference between doing science because you want the answers and doing engineering because you want to win in court.

I wonder if their concerns would be taken more seriously. My guess is yes. If the affected party was a group of multi-millionaires, the drilling would be stopped instantly because their lives are worth more.

It is not at all surprising that this EPA finding follows the political decision that has already been made that fracking is going to continue unabated. There is probably plenty of evidence out there on both sides. So the government can pick and chose from the research to create whatever picture is required by politics.

Does anybody think that a few poisoned wells in Pennsylvania would have been enough to put the brakes on the gas industry and their political lackeys? No way. Nothing is going to stop this rush to get at that natural gas. It doesn't matter whether our water supplies are getting screwed up or not. There is too much money to be made and the forces driving it are too powerful. That even includes a lot of regular folks who understand what is happening but would still rather trade a few fracking jobs today for bad water tomorrow.

The replies in this thread sound like things Sen. Inhofe said last night in the interview with Maddow.

This is a news report - have you considered that the actual text of the EPA report might not in any way clear fracking as a source of contamination? The only hard statements I see are that the detected chemicals do not exceed established minimum standards; everything else bias on the part of the readers here.

The study at Dimock is ongoing and is part of a comprehensive nationwide assessment of the effects of fracking.

Federal environmental regulators said Friday that they are "not drawing any conclusions" about whether the first 11 Dimock Twp. water test results they described Thursday are representative of the 61 water wells sampled in the town.


http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/epa-not-yet-drawing-conclusions-about-full-dimock-picture-1.1286852#axzz1pOpLD5Co

So long as you keep it away from sources of ignition.

I'll bet the local fire service is happy.