Saturday, November 26, 2011

REAL PEOPLE, REAL LIVES DESTROYED BY HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND HORIZONTAL DRILLING in PAVILION, WYOMING

Wake up West Virginia! In Pavilion, Wyoming, residents have been told NOT to drink the water as their evidence  shows that their water has been contaminated by dangerous chemicals used exclusively in fracking.

Chemicals Being Hauled Into the Big Laurel Gas Well Site, Richwood, Nicholas County, WV 





The fact is that IF the same regulations (Safe Air/Safe Water Acts) legislation that applies to the US coal industry were applied to the hydraulic fracturing/horizontal drilling industry (it was exempted unfer the "Haliburton Loophole", making it the ONLY industry that can legally inject known toxins directly into sources of drinking water without federal regulation) then this process would be far less economic for the operators, and the massive investment houses would probably drop their interests like a hot potato. The industry denies contamination occurs although it has bought off many thousands of people who have complained of water contamination. 

Here is a rancher, Louis Meeks, from Pavilion, Wyoming.. a Vietnam vet, talking on the issue. A video interview is included "..They can get the gas out, but they need to do it right. And we need to protect the people and the water for future generations. They have made such a mess out here they will never clean it up. So now what are we suppose to do for water? I can’t live without good water, Can you?"

VIETNAM VET LOUIS MEEKS OF PAVILION, WYOMING, TALKS ABOUT HOW HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND HORIZONTAL DRILLING HAS RUINED HIS WATER AND HIS LIFE

Elsewhere, MARCELLUS SHALE FRACTURING IMPACTS HUNTING CLUB - The bubbling flow has attracted generations of folks from Clearfield County and beyond, but staked into the ground now is a homemade sign bearing the warning: "Contaminated Water."

The sign seems out of place. Larry Righi certainly thinks so, even though he had a hand in putting it up months after a torn liner under one or more EOG Resources Marcellus Shale drill cuttings pits allowed leakage that contaminated groundwater feeding the spring almost two years ago.

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