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There can be problem with wells. they occur the first few hundred feet below the surface. lets run this animation to show you. when is well is drilled through the aquifer the drilling company puts in cement on the outside which seal off the aquifer. some case there is is a fault in the steelcasing or cement job. gas can bubble up from a shallow pocket or deep and get into the aquifer and get into peoples wells. in the state of pennsylvania we went out with range resources. this company says it t...

Quarantineed. johnsons dont expect theyll fetch much at auction next year. >> would you be comfortable eating meat there the cows? >> not really. >> i wouldnt want to take a chance. >> they may never know what the cattle drank. because of a government loophole, fracking is exempt from the federal clean water act. companies are not required to disclose what is in the fracking fluid. despite ordeals, johnsons are not against drilling. >> absolutely not against it. im for it. but it should be done ...

Forcing the herd to be quarantineed. johnsons dont expect theyll fetch much at auction next year. >> would you be comfortable eating meat there the cows? >> not really. >> i wouldnt want to take a chance. >> they may never know what the cattle drank. because of a government loophole, fracking is exempt from the federal clean water act. companies are not required to disclose what is in the fracking fluid. despite ordeals, johnsons are not against drilling. >> absolutely not against it. im for it....

>> reporter: they say there are bound to be mistake in an industry as new and growing as shale gas. tom corbett insists industry and the environment can coexist. >> did we make mistakes in the beginning? yes, we did. we have to make sure that we do everything we cannot to make those maythose mistakes now andk thats exactly what we are trying to do. >> reporter: even the people i talked to that were so affected by mistakes in the gas industry, the johns sons say they are not against the idea of t...

The film made its point by igniting methane gas seeping out of colorado. >> professor a cameo that would later spark a different kind of expo say all together. that story begins in 2010 when a texan named steven lip ski attended a screening of gas plan near fort worth texas after he said he suspected his well had been fouled he was put in contact with an an ta fracking specialist. list went to a home with a camera connected a garden hose with a spigot and put a match to the end. it ignited. rich...

It wasnt like somebody pulled the wool over his eyes. al had his own agenda that was adverse to the national gas industry. >> last spring the epa quietly rescinded the order against range resources issued by arm d armenderas. he insists this goes beyond one regulators agenda. >> thats the way eps has been behaving thats why they gained the reputation f. >> he twries triice tried to un shut down a natural gas fracking operation. >> the science has been faulty a vendetta against red white and bl t...

Well. according to epa records agency scientists had misgivings about the video and other evidence that had been gathered. he brushed them aside and pushed through an emergency order against range veerses. he th -- range resources. >> not only is there natural gas in the oil well but there is natural gas that is coming from the production activities of range. the oil and gas regulator decide to do review the matter himself. >> there is no way in the world range to do with the natural gas that mi...

Well. according to epa records agency scientists had misgivings about the video and other evidence that had been gathered. he brushed them aside and pushed through an emergency order against range veerses. he th -- range resources. >> not only is there natural gas in the oil well but there is natural gas that is coming from the production activities of range. the oil and gas regulator decide to do review the matter himself. >> there is no way in the world range had anything to do with the natura...

The film made its point by igniting methane gas seeping out of colorado. >> professor a cameo that would later spark a different kind of expo say all together. that story begins in 2010 when a texan named steven lip ski attended a screening of gas plan near fort worth texas after he said he suspected his well had been fouled he was put in contact with an an ta fracking specialist. list went to a home with a camera connected a garden hose with a spigot and put a match to the end. it ignited. rich...

>> he was a willing participant. it wasnt like somebody pulled the wool over his eyes. al had his own agenda that was adverse to the national gas industry. >> last spring the epa quietly rescinded the order against range resources issued by arm d armenderas. he insists this goes beyond one regulators agenda. >> thats the way eps has been behaving thats why they gained the reputation f. >> he twries triice tried to un shut down a natural gas fracking operation. >> the science has been faulty a ve...