Meanwhile, in Texas:
After embracing drilling, Texas town atop natural gas field spooked by
air pollution worries
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-gas-drilling-pollution,0,3873974.story
Excerpt:
"....Many in the town on the rural plains of Fort Worth didn't even
bother to ask whether the drilling might sour the air above the gas-
rich rock formation called the Barnett Shale. "Nobody even thought
about that kind of stuff," Mayor Calvin Tillman said.
By the time state regulators started testing the air around Dish,
there were 15 wells inside the town limits and more than 12,000 spread
across the massive shale. Results of those tests, released late last
year, found elevated levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene
near Dish, spooking residents who now fear that what once looked like
found money could end up harming their health..."
Read the rest here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-gas-drilling-pollution,0,3873974.story
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