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Drajem - 2013-08-13T17:40:37Z

Pennsylvania residents petitioned the Environmental
Protection Agency to reopen an investigation into water quality in Dimock, after
publication of an internal agency analysis that
linked gas drilling to methane leaks.

Ray Kemble, who lives in the town, and Craig Stevens, who lives nearby, today
delivered a petition they said was signed by 60,000 people to EPA employees in
Washington. They carried a gallon of brown water they said came from a well used
by Kemble.

“Even though I don’t like to call the federal government in, you guys are our
last hope,” Stevens told EPA staffers outside the agency’s headquarters. “We
need you to tell the truth about fracking.”

Dimock, the northeast Pennsylvania town featured in the film “Gasland,” has
become a symbol for opponents questioning the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, in which water, sand and chemicals are shot underground to free gas
trapped in shale deep underground. In 2010, state regulators said drilling by Cabot Oil
& Gas Corp. (COG) near Dimock had contaminated local wells, a finding
disputed by the company. The subsequent EPA investigation, concluded last year,
found the water posed no health risks to town residents.

In late July, environmentalists uncovered an unreleased power-point
presentation by an EPA employee that said fracking caused methane to leak into
drinking-water aquifers. The EPA said the findings in the presentation were
preliminary and more study is needed. Cabot said water-well issues are the
result of natural gas migration, not its drilling or fracking.

Following publication of the internal report, the critics of the
gas-production technique say the EPA needs to return to Dimock and reopen its
probe into what has happened there.

“We will review the petition,” Alisha Johnson, an agency spokeswoman who met
with Kemble and Stevens, said in an e-mail.

Gas production in Pennsylvania surged in the past few years as companies
expanded use of fracking. Drillers are finding natural gas in the Marcellus
Shale, which is about 5,000 feet under Pennsylvania and separated by thick rock
layers from the water aquifers, which are at most a few hundred feet beneath the
surface.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Drajem in Washington
at [email-masked]

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Steve Geimann at [email-masked]

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