Wyoming Draft Report Finds Contamination 'Unlikely' Due To Fracking

摘要

Wyoming's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has released its draft report outlining findings from its investigation of alleged groundwater contamination that an EPA study initially linked to hydraulic fracturing activities near Pavillion, WY, with DEQ saying it is "unlikely" that the contamination is due to fracking wells. "Evidence does not indicate that hydraulic fracturing fluids have risen to shallow depths intersected by water supply wells," says the draft report released Dec. 16. "Also, based on an evaluation of hydraulic fracturing history, and methods used in the Pavillion Gas Field, it is unlikely that fracturing has caused any impacts to the water-supply wells."