Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Fracking Trial in progress: Drillers held back information, the court finds.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/30/3573768/pa-fracking-drinking-water-investigation-errors/

In another twist, Range Resources was also recently slapped with the largest-ever fine against a Marcellus Shale driller in history — $4.15 million — for violations at the Yeager site. Those violations, so bad that the site has been forced to close, were mostly of leaks from its wastewater impoundments, which is the same thing Kiskadden alleged caused his own water well to be contaminated. Indeed, the biggest concern about fracking and its possibility to contaminate water is not from the drilling or fracking process itself, but from the faulty disposal of the massive amount of contaminated wastewater it produces.

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