Wednesday 3 September 2014

Yes, Virginia, methane and other pollutants do enter water supplies as a result of drilling gas wells


Wall Street Journal 28 August 2014:
Records on the 243 U.S. cases can be found here.

This is a  specific instance where the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sets out the risks of beyond saturation-level methane contamination to one household:

Even without the risk of serious water contamination, it is obvious that Australian authorities recognize that coal seam/tight/natural gas mining/production poses risks to nearby residential properties, because emergency services were called out at the beginning to the week to attend what was obviously the emergency venting of explosive gases from a coal seam gas well at the AGL Camden Gas Project 144 well field in the immediate vicinity of a housing estate.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm a bit confused, who's the Virginia in the heading?

clarencegirl said...

Virginia is a 19th century folklore character