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PA: Hydraulic Fracturing Did Not Cause Town's Methane Problems

By Greg Russell

Businessweek is reporting on recent findings by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regarding alleged methane contamination:  "Methane in the water wells of a Pennsylvania town visited by Yoko Ono in her campaign against hydraulic fracturing wasn’t caused by nearby drilling for natural gas, the state environmental regulator said. *** In the northeastern town of Franklin Forks, samples from three private water wells are comparable in their chemical makeup to the natural spring at a nearby park where methane had been detected long before fracking began in the area, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection."  (Emphasis is ours.)

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