Photo: Andrew MaycuffDans une entrevue avec Bloomberg, la Ministre Nathalie Normandeau disait vouloir attirer l'industrie du gaz naturel au Québec plutôt qu'elle aille forer en Pennsylvanie. Je parie que certaines gens de Pennsylvanie vont se sentir soulagés de voir les malheurs changer de place. Prenons par exemple:
Les 350,000 citoyens qui prennent leur eau potable de la rivière Monongahela qui ont probablement eu leur source d'eau contaminée par des eaux de rejets du forage pour le gaz naturel utilisant la méthode de fracturation hydraulique.
Les 14 familles de la ville de Dimock qui se fait donner de l'eau potable par Cabot Oil and Gas: l'état a forcé la fermeture de certains de ses puits après avoir contaminé l'eau potable de la ville.
Le groupe de citoyens de Damascus qui ont pris des photos aériennes du puits Robson, ont fait analysé des prélèvements d'eau et on placé une plainte officielle de contamination de l'environnement le 5 octobre et n'ont pas de réponse encore.
Le cours d'eau Cross Creek dans le Hopewell Township a été complètement vidé de son eau par les pompes des compagnies de forage en août 2007. Le cours d'eau Sugarcamp run dans Independence Township a été vidé de son eau par une compagnie de forage en août 2008.
Le puits de Norma Fiorentino a explosé au Jour de l'An et a projeté le couvert de béton en morceaux sur son parterre. Le forage pour extraire le gaz naturel a fait migrer du méthane dans l'aquifère et a pénétré dans les puits d'eau potable de 9 maisons dans le comté, risquant de faire sauter au moins 4 d'entres eux.
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Quebec Natural Resources Nathalie Normandeau would like to attract the natural gas industry in our province rather than seeint the business investing in Pennsylvania. I bet some people in Pennsylvania would like to warn us of the price of letting hydro-fracturing mess up your neighborhood, like these folks:
"The Monongahela, a drinking water source for 350,000 people, had apparently been contaminated by chemically tainted wastewater from the state’s growing natural gas industry." http://www.propublica.org/feature/wastewater-from-gas-drilling-boom-may-threaten-monongahela-river
"More than 15 months after natural gas drilling contaminated drinking water in Dimock, Pa., state officials are ordering the company responsible -- Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas -- to permanently shut down some of its wells, pay nearly a quarter million dollars in fines, and permanently provide drinking water to 14 affected families." http://www.propublica.org/feature/cabot-oil-and-gas-ordered-to-shut-down-problem-wells-and-pay-massive-fine-a
"An investigation of the Robson Well has confirmed contaminated soils at the site. This is the only active well within the watershed region. It was drilled with no oversight by watershed basin regulators - under great opposition by Damascus Citizens. Thus we took two sets of aerial photographs, circled the site with a coordinated set of water tests, and our legal team filed an official complaint on October 5. We have had no response." http://www.damascuscitizens.org/Robson.html
"Aug. 27, 2008: Pennsylvania's DEP investigates reports that a gas drilling company "pumped dry" Sugarcamp Run in Independence Township, Washington County. Aug. 1, 2007: A driller pumps water from Cross Creek in Hopewell Township, Washington County, "down to the rocks on the bed of the stream," according to DEP." http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17973811/detail.html
"The problem in the water here erupted on New Year's Day when an explosion in Norma Fiorentino's backyard well shattered an 8-foot concrete slab and tossed the pieces onto her lawn. An investigation by the state Department of Environmental Protection revealed that the culprit - methane risen into the aquifer because of nearby natural gas drilling - had seeped into the drinking water supplies at nine homes in the township, causing a threat of explosion in at least four of them." http://citizensvoice.com/news/gas-drilling-with-catastrophic-results-1.365468
There's nothing like learning from the people who have had to deal with natural gas drilling companies to anticipate the problems that come with signing on the dotted line.
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