Fracking Wells in Northeastern PA
NJAL says: "The process of Fracking wells is a violent process that significantly disrupts the rock, soil and water underground to dislodge methane to be extracted for natural gas supplies. This same process can disturb the underground water supplies and move pollution in the form of methane and other gas-like substances into drinking water supplies. A simple test to check for this is to request a volatile organic scan. Additionally some of the extraction fluids used can contain Cadmium and Arsenic, these two metals should also be checked." Read article below...
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
A controversial form of drilling for natural gas from shale rock appears to be contaminating groundwater wells with methane in northeastern Pennsylvania and Upstate New York, according to a Duke University study.