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A draft report by the Environmental
Protection Agency, issued in December, appeared to confirm their concerns,
linking chemicals in local groundwater to gas drilling.
A draft report by
the Environmental Protection Agency, issued in December, appeared to confirm
their concerns, linking chemicals in local groundwater to gas drilling.

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.

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.
But some
locals say the draft report’s analysis of water samples, which identified
synthetic chemicals consistent with natural gas drilling and hydraulic
fracturing fluids, is proof of what they suspected for years.
Encana Oil
and Gas (U.S.A.) Inc., which bought the Pavillion gas field in 2004 and
operates about 125 gas wells in the area, is already providing jugs of
drinking water for Mr. Locker and 20 other households. It is unclear whether
Encana will defray any of the cost of the cistern water.
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.
But here on
the front lines of the battle over fracking, which has become an increasingly
popular technique to extract previously unobtainable reserves of oil and
gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.
A draft report by the Environmental
Protection Agency, issued in December, appeared to confirm their concerns,
linking chemicals in local groundwater to gas drilling.
“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.”
But some locals say the draft report’s analysis of water samples,
which identified synthetic chemicals consistent with natural gas drilling and
hydraulic fracturing fluids, is proof of what they suspected for years.

But here on the front lines of the battle over fracking, which has become an
increasingly popular technique to extract previously unobtainable reserves of
oil and gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.
Encana Oil and Gas (U.S.A.)
Inc., which bought the Pavillion gas field in 2004 and operates about 125 gas
wells in the area, is already providing jugs of drinking water for Mr.
Locker and 20 other households. It is unclear whether Encana will defray any
of the cost of the cistern water.
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.
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tchao