(환경)원유추출과 공해
(환경) 원유추출과 공해
For the first time, the EPA links the oil and gas drilling method called “Fracking”
to the pollution of ground water!
“Right now, I don’t know if I’m poisoning my family, if I am not!”
There is a major development tonight in the ongoing debate over fracking,
a method of oil and gas drilling
that has opened up vast new energy resources here in the US and
created 1000s of jobs.
Pressurized waters, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to fracture rocks
and improve the flow of oil and gas to the surface.
But today, for the first time,
the EPA said fracking may be polluting vital ground water resources in one state!
Here is Nancy Cortis.
In a small arid건조한 town of Pavilion Wyoming, water is a precious commodity일용품!
So the EPA’s findings are devastating for farmer John Penton.
“Right now, I don’t know if I’m poisoning my family, if I am not!”
According to the EPA,
the ground water supplying his well contains Benzene at 50 times the maximum contamination level.
Methane at NEAR saturation포화상태 levels
and a ph level of household bleach표백제!
Penton and 20 other families were warned by the EPA last year not to drink or cook with their well water
and to use fan while showering!
Today the EPA pinned the blame on byproducts부산물 from hydraulic fracturing,
a method used to extract natural gas.
Millions of gallons of water, sand and potentially toxic chemicals
are released into the earth, shattering부수다 the stone and releasing the gas for collection.
Pavilion sits on a geological bed of natural gas rich sand stone
and the Canadian energy giant ENKANA owns 200 natural gas wells within 4 square miles.
The water from Louise Mix’s well smells like lighter fluid.
“Every time, I water my yard and water my garden, I am spreading them chemicals all over.
For years, the states declined to investigate the town’s complaints.
The oil, gas and coal industry delivers 65% of Wyoming’s tax revenue and 19000 of its jobs.
What’s more… Landowners in the western US don’t own mineral rights on their own property!
So they have no control over where the drills go and they receive no compensation!
“We are paying the price for them to make a profit!
And I think that’s wrong no matter how you look at it!”
Today Wyoming’s governor JFKN was skeptical of the EPA results.
The EPA notes its findings are specific to this one case in Wyoming and are not an indictment of the practice of fracking as a whole.
Still it is now conducting a broader review even as the industry which employs more than 600,000 people nationwide