Good Luck With Your Gas Wells
Washington PA Observer-Reporter
15 January 2010
Very disturbing but par for the course when our Texas Commission for
Environmental Quality is relying on the gas industry to produce their
own test and reports and then to think that those results are factual.
I hope that those who live within the Marcellus Shale are ready.
It was thought that the Barnett Shale was huge until the Marcellus
Shale was discovered. We are experiencing such harm to our land, water
and air with the level of production we are up against. In Fort Worth
alone, we are nearing 1,600 drill sites; the Marcellus Shale drill
fields are going to have many more. There are so many facets to
drilling that the drillers will not share with you until it is in your
front yard. There is drilling, fracking, hazard chemical injection
wells, transmission pipelines, battery stations, lift stations,
wastewater holding pits, compression stations and recycle stations,
which are nothing more then drying fields where the chemicals are held
in pits and evaporated into the air (recycling?). What goes up does
come down. I pray to God you are all paying very close attention to all
this.
Good luck, Washington citizens.
Mike Phipps
Fort Worth, Texas