Unfortunately, Dimock, PA, is not the only area with an undeserved reputation. Pavillion, Wyoming, is also suffering similar image abuse. Below is an excerpt from the Casper Star-Tribune written by Jeremy Fugleberg:
CASPER, Wyo. — Jon Martin’s letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is worn and folded in thirds, its words underlined with a pink highlighter past its prime.
The letter, water well testing results, should be Martin’s ticket to retirement — proof his water is fine and his land and home east of Pavillion worth selling.
Yet potential buyer after potential buyer has turned away because of the town’s reputation, now stained with international perceptions of polluted water and environmental conflict.
“Everybody who walked in my door would say, ‘Tell me about your water,’” Martin said. “I would let them read that EPA letter, but it didn’t seem to make any difference because of the perception that’s out there, that the water in Pavillion is bad. Period.
“That’s the perception, but it’s not the truth.”
The town and surrounding area in west-central Wyoming, home to only a few hundred people, has found itself the center of global attention after several residents living in a natural gas field outside the town said they feared nearby gas wells had ruined their well water.
The area is now stuck with a reputation for water gone bad because of energy development. That reputation has driven away both customers and land buyers, hindered loan financing and driven a wedge between neighbors.
While those with concerns continue their quest to find out why their water is bad, some of their neighbors are fed up with the negative publicity and the damage done.
“We were quiet too long,” said Martin, sitting at neighbor Steve Hugus’ table. “We just thought the story would go away. And it didn’t.”
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/some-pavillion-residents-rue-being-caught-in-fracking-controversy/article_76a5d57f-6c92-566a-9d08-3f0546fdda6c.html#ixzz1noqloPIx
I think we are already in the same boat as those residents in Pavillion, WY are. Let’s all strive to get as much accurate, positive information on this website as possible. If the DEP and the EPA aren’t digging to find out what conditions were like here many years ago, we’ll do it. Keep commenting – we’re getting there.
Hoping and praying that EPA does not set a precedent in blaming ‘big industry’ (Cabot) in all this mess and actually allows the real truth to prevail. The test results, if handled and reported correctly, should prove the facts!!!
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! Friday March 16th 2012. EPA now says that the water in Dimock IS SAFE to drink!!!!! Halleluia THE TRUTH shines through. Now maybe our lives can get back to buisiness along with the gas company. Wonder if the false accusers can now be held accountable and liable for paying all of the people affected by the moratorium for a loss of wages…….?
I read about the Williams ‘compression station’ in Springville blew up or caught on fire. (I am probably not using the correct words).
Does this affect the gas leaving the wells in Dimock PA?
***Fracing has been used in the U.S. for more than 60 years in more than a million oil and gas wells. As far as I know, Dimock and the rest of America hasn’t imploded into the earth’s molten core.
Al why do you spread this lie? The high volume slick-water fracing used in Pa. is really how old al??
No lies here, medij.
How Long Has Hydrofracking Been Practiced?
Hydraulic Fracturing is not a new process.
The concept dates as far back as the 1860s when nitroglycerin was used to enhance production from hard rock oil wells in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and other Appalachian states. A book published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1910 cites use of the technique in 1903 by mining companies1.
See full article here: http://energy.wilkes.edu/pages/203.asp