'Irreversible': No easy fix for water fouled by gas driller

[turbinetree]

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM yesterday

https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-pennsylvania-pollution-aquifers-0b3192410218270550ce362dfe9d9c57/gallery/8c31d7410d2347f49438b51ee7da434e

DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Meeting with a man whose well water has been polluted for years, officials in the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office asked him whether he’d consider accepting a treatment system from the gas driller charged with fouling his aquifer.

Not a chance, Ray Kemble told them.

“Are you going to drink and bathe in it?” Kemble asked the prosecutor and her colleague, a special agent. “Are you two going to come here and live in this house on that system for a month and use that water?”

https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-pennsylvania-pollution-aquifers-0b3192410218270550ce362dfe9d9c57

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Smart Man. It's a terrible tragedy that perhaps one of his neighbors had oil/gas reserves on their

land, and the oil / gas people came in and in the process of extracted the oil and gas, polluted everybody else's water. Where was the state entities in protecting this guy's water? I do wonder if a polluted body of water can be cleaned up (in the ground 100%), perhaps open up some ventilation shafts into the body of water, and over time, let the gas fumes vent out naturally?

I don't know about oil and gas being extracted and the ills associated w/ such although I have lived near such small gas / oil wells in Joplin MO (in KS and OK, the wells) and in STLMO (in neighboring Illinois, believe it or not, there are loads of gas/oil wells there).

[turbinetree]

3. My parents in there development in Wyoming near Casper were involved in a case

where-by the oil company plant had polluted the undergrown water wells, the town had to get public water out to the development, which was over 5 miles out from the main town and I cannot remember how much it cost and whatever else was used for the settlement but I do think it was in the millions of dollars and to settle with the home owners, if I remember correctly it was over 5+ years .
And there house was about two or three from miles from the oil plant.

I can still remember we could not drink or bath in the water, and had to wait for the parents home having a software system in place, and every 6 months they had to replace the filters and such, after it was discovered, it was a mess. The filters were just black.

Dad would not water the the garden plants, grass or trees unless the water system was fixed.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Wow. So sorry that you all had to mess with this, all caused by other greedy persons.

[turbinetree]

6. Oh yeah I know all about ground water pollution, this was the place

https://k2radio.com/epa-finishes-cleanup-of-part-of-toxic-site-near-evansville/

and Dow and kinder Morgan were not there when I was there it was something else Little America Oil Refinery

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I read the article. Thanks for sharing. We have our own little history, Times Beach, where the

guy hired to spray the gravel roads w/ oil to keep the dust down used a dioxin laced oil instead (to get rid of it instead of properly disposing of it) and in the end contaminated the entire town. It still sits there, I think most of the structures are gone, but it's amazing a town of 2000 gone like that. Unfortunately, it happens all over.

From the article you linked to me, they may continue w/ the EPA assessments/continued evaluations, and possibly, future development (I assume a business(es) of some kind).

Here it is, almost (1990 site was added, 2018 was date of article). Wow.

I do hope that when pollution does occur (in the future), that the long-term ramifications are made fully clear to those doing the polluting. I'd like to say that people are very aware and conscious of NOT polluting, but I fear that this won't happen w/ everybody. There will be some that will continue to pollute, not giving a crap. A shame.

[turbinetree]

9. It is a shame, because the powers in charge and those doing this stuff know

but they are just not telling anyone, just like the guy spraying the oil down, he knows, they really just don't care is the bottom line, until one of them get then cancer caused by there malfeasance......

[maxrandb]

2. His county went 69% for Donnie Dipshit

Sorry dude. Maybe talk some sense into your neighbors.

[keithbvadu2]

4. How safe is it? Ask people who know.

How safe is it? Ask people who know.

Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon/Mobil did not want fracking in his neighborhood.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=sIVRWpfqEYi4jwS7hYnQCg&q=tillerson+not+want+fracking+near+homestead&oq=tillerson+not+want+fracking+near+home&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.33i160k1l2.3526.15351.0.18062.38.37.0.0.0.0.339.5502.0j24j4j1.29.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..9.27.5136.0..0j46j35i39k1j0i131k1j0i46k1j0i10k1j0i20i264k1j33i21k1.0.7T0SCQEOKcU

Your neighborhood?

He's OK with that.

[onethatcares]

8. Mayflower Arkansas

the Pegasus Pipeline brought to us by Exxon/Mobil broke in April 2013. The judge in the class action suit dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice in March 2015 according to the Insurance Journal.

It does seem the fossil fuel industry has some pull when it comes to environmental devastation.