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Shoveling Water: Predrill Tests

by Melissa Troutman on December 19, 2011 · 7 Comments

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This story was updated on January 4, 2012. What if a predrill water well test conducted during the biggest boom for natural gas became meaningless? At least one predrill test in Pennsylvania has been deemed insufficient by natural [...]

EPA Study Finds Hydraulic Fracturing Contaminates Drinking Water Aquifer

by The Investigative Newswire on December 8, 2011 · comment

Natural gas well site in Tioga County Pennsylvania. photo: Joshua B. Pribanic

Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nick Kusnetz for ProPublica In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely [...]

Natural Gas Pollution: What Chesapeake Energy and Department of Environmental Protection Concluded about Towanda Creek Blowout

by Melissa Troutman on November 9, 2011 · 5 Comments

(DEP file photograph) Sampling location: mouth of UNT: sampling location modified due to high flow. photo: Joshua B. Pribanic

This is the first story in a three part investigation of how natural gas pollution is being handled in Pennsylvania. In a Public Herald file review of an environmental assessment report submitted by Chesapeake Energy about the Atgas [...]