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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Anti-Job-Creation EPA Twists Evidence
See Tainted EPA Report on Fracking.
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…it turns out that the EPA drilled two monitoring wells to some 900 feet – much deeper than water wells which are usually at about 300 feet – and indeed found hydrocarbons. In short, they drilled into the natural gas reservoir that has long attracted industry producers…In addition to noting that the EPA had in effect discovered natural gas by drilling into a natural gas reservoir, the company faulted the EPA’s “discovery” of various several man-made chemicals in the deep wells. Curiously, the agency found the same chemicals in the so-called “blank” water samples— the “ultra purified water commonly used in testing to ensure no contamination from field sampling procedures.” As Encana points out, the conclusion suggests “problems associated with EPA methodology”. No kidding.
Encana further complained that the EPA ignored historical evidence of naturally occurring contaminants in the area. They claim that the USGS reported about poor water quality in the 1880s and again in 1959 (preceding the start of drilling in the 1960s) due to “high concentrations of naturally occurring sulfate, total dissolved solids and pH levels which commonly exceed state and federal drinking water standards.” They also fault the EPA for not providing any “qualified” third party objective review of the report.
Obama clearly prefers to create a few dozen"green" jobs that produce energy at two to three times the cost of gasoline, rather than drilling for oil and natural gas, activity that brings thousands of jobs to poorer areas. The same attitude was displayed in his effectively killing Trans Canada’s plan for a pipeline to bring petroleum from Canada into mid-America, a project that would have created an estimated 150,000 jobs.
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