EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

[The Straight Story]

EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.


The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.

Last year -- after warning residents not to drink or cook with the water and to ventilate their homes when they showered -- the EPA drilled the monitoring wells to get a more precise picture of the extent of the contamination.

http://www.propublica.org/article/epa-finds-fracking-compound-in-wyoming-aquifer

[Greybnk48]

1. Fresh water is the next petroleum industry.

The rich will control that once they've contaminated all the easily accessible water.

[MADem]

3. You're probably right. nt

[MADem]

2. Gee, wonder if Unka Dick would like a nice glass o' water? nt

[rfranklin]

4. How can that be? I saw the commercial...

where they said they had it totally under control.

[democrat_patriot]

5. And repuglicans want to get rid of the EPA.

F*****s.

How can someone actually want pollution and cancer causing chemicals in the water supply of other human beings?

[ensho]

6. bad news - can that water ever be clean again?

nt

[The Straight Story]

7. They can probably clean it up, but would charge us a lot so they can profit on that too

;)

[eppur_se_muova]

8. 2-Butoxyethanol, a major component of Correxit ... probable carcinogen ...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/24/exclusive-gulf-oil-dispersant-toxic-carcinogen/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Butoxyethanol#Safety



http://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0275.pdf

Also used in some whiteboard cleaners. :(