what do you mean with the weather ?

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Hi Folks,

this extract is appropriate
In the meantime, the state has offered to
provide cisterns for local residents, using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming
Legislature this year. Under the plan, people here would still have to pay a
fee to have their water hauled from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a
cost that could run more than $150 per month.
“Until there is a
peer-reviewed study and a good scientific basis that indicates that the
issues related to water are related to our operations, that is not something
we are ready to address,” said Doug Hock, an Encana spokesman.
Renny
MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was committed to figuring
out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was found to contain
contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.
Mr. Fenton said
he thought he had dodged a bullet until about three years ago, when his tap
water began occasionally fizzing and smelling like petroleum. And even though
Encana is giving him drinking water, Mr. Fenton said he and his family still
bathe in dirty water.
In the meantime, the state has offered to provide
cisterns for local residents, using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming
Legislature this year. Under the plan, people here would still have to pay a
fee to have their water hauled from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a
cost that could run more than $150 per month.
“I’d like to have the
industry held accountable for once,” said Jeff Locker, a hay and barley
farmer who said that his well water had gone bad around the mid-’90s and that
the contaminants had contributed to his wife’s neuropathy. “We’ve got
scientific proof. And they’re still turning their back on us. They expect us
to pay between $100 and $200 for something we didn’t cause. It gets under my
skin.”
Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was
committed to figuring out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was
found to contain contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.

Mr. Hock said it should have come as no surprise that the E.P.A.’s two
monitoring wells showed high levels of methane and benzene because they were
drilled deep into a natural gas field.
For the last few years, a small
group of farmers and landowners scattered across this rural Wyoming basin
have complained that their water wells have been contaminated with chemicals
from a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking.
After an outcry from Wyoming’s governor, Matt Mead, and the
energy industry that the federal report was premature and inconclusive, more
testing was conducted by the United States Geological Survey and is being
processed. The E.P.A. is also in the midst of collecting additional water
samples for study.

tchao