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AP: EPA Draft Finding Links Fracking With Groundwater Pollution In Wyoming
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The Associated Press Thursday reported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft finding saying for the first time it has found a link between unconventional well fracking and groundwater pollution in the state of Wyoming.
EPA said it has found compounds likely associated with fracking chemicals in groundwater beneath Pavillion, Wyoming.
Kathryn Klaber, head of the PA Marcellus Shale Coalition, said “it is entirely too early in this process, given the lack of peer-reviewed data, to arrive at any kind of absolute conclusions.”
“Environmental protection is critical to our industry, and we are confident that as the critical peer-review process moves forward, scientists and engineers on the ground in Wyoming will be able to secure more facts,” she said.
Katie Gresh, spokeswoman for the PA Department of Environmental Protection, said the agency is still reviewing the findings.
“It is important to note,” she said, “that there are no documented cases of hydraulic fracturing impacting a water supply in Pennsylvania.”
EPA said this week's announcement was the first step in a process of opening its findings to public and scientific review.
A copy of the draft finding is available online.
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12/12/2011 |
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