New analysis shows fracking chemicals in Pennsylvania drinking water

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://inhabitat.com/new-analysis-shows-fracking-chemicals-in-
pennsylvania-drinking-water/

The true consequences of fracking are finally being shown, after a test
found fracking chemicals in Pennsylvania homes that are located near a
reported well-pad leak. The New York Times reports that a team of
scientists conducted an analysis using a new technique to determine that a
chemical compound known as 2-BE was present in homes near the fracking
well. The compound is an “unidentified mixture of organic contaminants,
both commonly seen in the flowback water from Marcellus shale activity.”

“These findings are important because we show that chemicals traveling
from shale gas wells more than 2 kilometers (just over 1 mile) in the
subsurface to drinking water wells,” Susan Brantley, professor of
geosciences and director of the Earth and Environmental Institute at Penn
State University, told The New York Times. “The chemical that we
identified either came from fracking fluids or from drilling additives and
it moved with natural gas through natural features in the rock. In
addition, for the first time, all of the data are released so that anyone
can study the problem.”

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According to Brantley, this kind of contamination to shallow potable water
has never been revealed this fully and the new analysis technique could
become an important tool for evaluating alleged caused of unconventional
gas drilling impacts to groundwater.

State environmental regulators have found high level of natural gas in the
water before, but didn’t notice the flowback water contamination above
regulatory limits, which made the water foam – according to the
researchers. The researchers were able to piece things together using
sophisticated equipment that tested for a range of potential contaminants
at low levels, instead of specific substances.

The news is ‘too little, too late’ for the people who lived in the homes,
which were sold to the gas company via a legal settlement in 2012.


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