Fracking/Pavillion and EPA Findings
Fracking/Pavillion and EPA Findings
- The myth of energy independence
The definition of "energy independence" is evolving. Up to recently, it has meant the U.S. producing enough of our own oil and gas so that we were not dependent on other nations for our energy needs...(01/15/13) - Wyoming Gov. Mead to Interior: Back off on fracking rules
Gov. Matt Mead has asked the Interior Department to scale back — or abandon altogether — proposed rules that would require petroleum companies to disclose the chemicals they inject down well bores during hydraulic fracturing...(09/11/2012)
A natural gas drilling rush is on in rural North Dakota. And with it, residents are reporting growing numbers of respiratory ailments, skin lesions, blood oozing from eyes, and the deaths of livestock and pets...(09/06/2012)
- The myth of energy independence
A natural gas drilling rush is on in rural North Dakota. And with it, residents are reporting growing numbers of respiratory ailments, skin lesions, blood oozing from eyes, and the deaths of livestock and pets...(09/06/2012)
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Fracking Is Safe-Except in Wyoming
Louis Meeks, a hay farmer in Pavillion, Wyo., holds a mason jar under a faucet in his house and turns on the water. It's a demonstration he's given to a slew of neighbors and government officials. The water, drawn from his backyard well, is cloud and smells like diesel. "Would you want to drink it?" he asks....(09/07/2012) -
You Tube Video---Josh Fox, "Gasland" @ Stop The Frack Attack! Washington, DC, July 28, 2012
- Fracking lessons-What Boulder County and the rest of gasland can learn from Pavillion's decade-long fight
The water in the town of Pavillion, Wyo., has not been contaminated by the fracking that is taking place a few miles east of town....(05/31/2012) - Hydraulic Fracturing Under the Safe Drinking Water Act
Natural gas plays a key role in our nation's clean energy future and the process known as hydraulic fracturing is one way of accessing that vital resource. Hydraulic fracturing is used by gas producers to stimulate wells and recover natural gas from sources such as coalbeds and shale gas formations...05/04/12) - EPA Releases Draft Permitting Guidance for Using Diesel Fuel in Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracturing/Guidance will clarify means of compliance with 2005 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released draft underground injection control (UIC) program permitting guidance for class II wells that use diesel fuels during hydraulic fracturing activities. EPA developed the draft guidance to clarify how companies can comply with a law passed by Congress in 2005, which exempted hydraulic fracturing operations from the requirement to obtain a UIC permit, except in cases where diesel fuel is used as a fracturing fluid...(05/04/12) - Pavillion Area Concerned Citizens (PACC) statement on The AP Exclusive: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding is yet another perfect example of how the State of Wyoming has covered up industry's horrendous practices. Impacted citizens are viewed as collateral damage while the oil and gas industry rakes in billions of dollars...(05/04/2012) - AP: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials - whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study - time to attempt to debunk the finding before it rocked the oil and gas industry more than a month later, an investigation by The Associated Press has found...(05/04/2012)
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Citizens Write to the Congressional Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee
- Draft Report for the EPA Pavillion Groundwater Contamination Investigation
Pavillion area residents have recognized contamination in their water for over ten years. The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting an investigation to establish why. Below are letters written by PACC to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and the EPA's Office of Research and Development. In the letters, impacted residents support the EPA's investigation and ask Governor Mead to do the same.
- Letter from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead
- Action Alert: Support EPA's Pavillion Draft Report and Findings
EPA is accepting public comment for the external review of the draft research report titled, ‘‘Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming'' (FRL-9506-7; 76 FR 77829). The draft research report was prepared by the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, within the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), and EPA Region 8...(01/31/2012) - Press Release-Affected landowners urge Congressional support of EPA investigation of Wyoming groundwater contamination from fracking...(01/31/2012)
January 31, 2012 Press Statements
- John Fenton Press Statement
- Lewis Meeks Press Statement
- Jeff Locker Press Statement
- Wilma Subra Press Statement