November 9, 2009 - A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.
Water tests at three locations by gas wells on Zimmermann's property -- one is 1,500 feet (460 metres) from his home -- found seven potentially carcinogenic chemicals above "screening levels" set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as warranting further investigation.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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In 1989, a family living near the River Gas coalbed methane development in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, enlisted the help of the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation (LEAF) of Tallahassee, Fla, to challenge coalbed methane operations, explained Dennis Lathem of the Coalbed Methane Association of Alabama (CMAA). "They charged that nearby coalbed methane hydraulic fracturing activity in 1989 had contaminated a water well located on family property: Mr Lathem wrote in a piece entitled "LEAF v EPA: A Challenge to the Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Wells in Alabama".
Read more about the case at
http://www.iadc.org/dcpi/dc-janfeb00/j-coalbed.pdf
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