Jan. 30, 2017 02:54PM EST
Guess what was found in Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) filing cabinets after gas operators drilled 10,027 fracking wells over the last 12 years? Only 9,442 citizen-reported fracking complaints. And 44 percent of those are drinking water-related. Pennsylvania’s DEP finally released the complaints to Public Herald, an investigative journalism nonprofit. There’s much to learn from Pennsylvania’s now-public 9,442 fracking complaints as legislators decide to frack or not to frack in Western Maryland.
As fracking took off in 2008, so did the number of citizens lodging water, air and land fracking complaints with the DEP.
A year ago, we reported that Pennsylvania’s drinking water contamination due to fracking appeared to be much higher than previously reported. To date, Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) reports only 284 positive water contaminations for the 10,027 fracking wells drilled. That three percent figure seems pretty low.
Read more at http://www.ecowatch.com/fracking-complaints-pennsylvania-2225509887.html.
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