![]() Statement of Halle Van der Gaag, Senior Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware Programs for the National Parks Conservation Association: ![]() The National Parks Conservation has sought to protect the Delaware River Basin and the national rivers that lie within it from fracking since as early as 2011. All governors voted “aye,” to these new regulations banning fracking, with Brigadier General Tickner abstaining. Tickner of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Cuomo of New York, Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, and Brigadier General Thomas J. The Delaware Basin River Commissioners include Governor John Carney of Delaware, Governor Andrew M. This decision, years in the making, will protect the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, a unit of the National Park Service, from the harmful, poisonous impacts of fracked water. Today, the Delaware Basin River Commission voted to ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin. “EPA does not maintain a database of all the wells being hydraulically fractured across the country,” she said in an email.Park ranger canoes on the shore of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River. The EPA does not keep track of whether underground sources of drinking water have been hydraulically fractured as part of oil and gas development, said Alisha Johnson, a spokeswoman. The Stanford research does not explore the possibility of migration, focusing instead on the injection of fracking chemicals directly into geological formations that contain groundwater. The EPA study looked at whether chemicals migrated upward from fracked geological zones into people’s well water. In June 2013, the EPA turned over the study to Wyoming regulators, whose work is being funded by EnCana, the company accused of polluting the water in Pavillion. Industry and the state of Wyoming questioned the EPA’s methodology after its 2011 draft report found the presence of chemicals associated with gas production in residents’ well water. The Stanford study focuses on Pavillion, in part because of DiGiulio’s familiarity with the area when he served as an EPA researcher in the latter stages of the Pavillion water study. “We think that any fracking within a thousand feet of the surface should be more clearly documented and face greater scrutiny.” ![]() “You can’t test the consequences of an activity if you don’t know how common it is,” he said. Jackson said the Stanford study’s findings underscore the need for better monitoring of fracking at shallower depths. After initially finding evidence of contamination at the three sites, the EPA shelved the investigations amid allegations by environmentalists and local residents that the regulator succumbed to political pressure. The EPA launched three investigations over the last six years into possible drinking water contamination by oil and gas activity in Dimock, Pa. “People don’t realize, though, that it’s sometimes happening less than a thousand feet underground in sources of drinking water.”Ĭompanies say that fracking has never contaminated drinking water. “It’s true that fracking often occurs miles below the surface,” said Jackson, professor of environment and energy at Stanford.
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