Current Event

Nikens Toussaint

0508-212-02

12/08/2011

Current Event 1

Subject: “EPA says 'fracking' probably contaminated well water in Wyoming”

Summary: At first impression, the EPA always notices that the issue occurred because of a controversial natural gas drilling. Now a study of been put in process to see the possible effect of what the call “fracking” on water resources. They have kind of a reason why put they want to be precise before they say actually what happened. For now they assume that such thing happen in areas of oil and gas development. They all agreed that it is a major problem but they don’t have a conclusion for it and even their probability for its very poor. People did complain about this situation couple year ago. Now the question raises is: “how common these shoddy drilling practices are?”

Re-action: I think since it is not the first time such thing happened, I will personally blame the EPA for it. Because there are millions of people who depend on this water and even though for them it is not that many, they should all consider them equal. People in Pavillon have notice that there was something wrong going on and they acknowledge as they should to the EPA who since then put a study since 2009 that hasn’t gave any result. And now telling me that there is a study about it in process, I will take this in consideration. If you did know that this situation was produced by natural drilling around the area, you should put a study for checking all those gas industry or chemical factor around.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fracking-20111209,0,1034865.story