Image by: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
Making way for the Marcellus
Drilling salts still turning up in drinking water supplies
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
From: Reid Frazier
Length: 00:07:50
Hydraulic fracturing has allowed gas drillers to tap into a rich bed of gas in the Marcellus shale. But some are worried about water pollution. The state asked drillers to keep wastewater from drilling out of rivers and drinking water supplies. It's loaded with a naturally occurring salt called bromide which, in large quantities, threatens drinking water. The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier and Ann Murray found pollutants associated with drilling are still in rivers and drinking water supplies, and looked for reasons why.
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Hydraulic fracturing has allowed gas drillers to tap into a rich bed of gas in the Marcellus shale. But some are worried about water pollution. The state asked drillers to keep wastewater from drilling out of rivers and drinking water supplies. It's loaded with a naturally occurring salt called bromide which, in large quantities, threatens drinking water. The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier and Ann Murray found pollutants associated with drilling are still in rivers and drinking water supplies, and looked for reasons why.
