Tuesday, January 18, 2011

EPA Fracking Review Update

A panel of geologists, toxicologists, engineers and doctors will review the techniques and analysis the Environmental Protection Agency uses to draft a study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing. The panel may also be asked to review the conclusions of the study, which are to be released in 2012.

All but four members of the board, called the Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan Review Panel, are affiliated with research universities, and none is currently employed by an oil or gas company. It will be led by David A. Dzombak, professor of environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Several members of a previous peer-review panel that participated in a 2004 EPA study of hydraulic fracturing in coal-bed methane wells were current or former employees of the oil and gas industry. That study concluded that hydraulic fracturing poses "little or no threat" to drinking water aquifers.

Source link...
-- http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-drilling/peer-review-panel-for-epa-fracking-study-includes-six-pa-scientists-1.1091757#axzz1BPkpIFuH

Related links...
-- http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/30/30greenwire-natural-gas-drillers-protest-nomination-of-fra-98647.html
-- http://www.timesleader.com/news/EPA_to_again_review_drilling__fracking_issues_07-21-2010.html

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