Tag: fracking
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Lax Permitting, Poor Construction Lead to Groundwater Contamination
Thirty years after faulty gas wells and unlined holding ponds began contaminating groundwater, residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, still can’t drink the water. Sue Spencer, a hydrogeologist based in Laramie, Wyo, looks down from a sandy bluff on a two-football-field-sized swath of cleared land that designates a capped natural gas well. Two men in unmarked blue…
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Dawn Stein – Even Being Deaf Doesn’t Block Out the Noise of Drilling
Dawn Stein stood in her front yard, shaded by a canopy of rustling, century-old cottonwood trees. A well-manicured lawn surrounded her tidy white house. On Dawn’s front porch, a low table and chairs beckoned a relaxing summer afternoon of gazing out over her Greeley, Colorado neighborhood. A massive sound wall blocked the view, however, and…