DESMOG
By Steve Horn
Tuesday, January 31,
2017
The investigative journalism outlet Public Herald
documented that ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy has been the subject of 176
citizen complaints in Pennsylvania, many of them drinking water-related. The
state is home to the Marcellus Shale basin, the most prolific field for
obtaining natural gas via hydraulic fracturing ('fracking”) in the U.S. and an
early hotbed of debate on fracking's potential threats.
In its investigation, the Pennsylvania-based
publication spent three years digging up complaints submitted by the state's
citizens to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). With
documents spanning from 2004–2016, the complaints previously have been
concealed from the public, and Public Herald says they show “evidence of
widespread and systemic impacts” of fracking on water in the state.
A DeSmog review of files housed on the investigation's
document-hosting website, PublicFiles.org, shows dozens upon dozens of these
wells were owned by XTO. The finding comes as President Donald Trump's nominees
for U.S. Secretary of State, recently retired ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, and
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Oklahoma Attorney General
and EPA antagonist Scott Pruitt, await full U.S. Senate floor hearings and
eventual confirmation votes….
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