Has only 40 inspectors. West virginia has 56,000 active wells and as of 2011 just 20 inspectors. Pollution of Drinking Water whether from fracking or flawed construction of the well, or from surface waste from the site moving into aquifers has occurred 248 times between 2008 and 2014 in pennsylvania. We actually do not know how many incidents in total there have been because the state did not start collecting statistics on incidents until 2014. If we had more transparency, more accountable and more oversight, local communities would be able to make well wellinformed choices. However, building an oversight hearing around Public Relations campaigns to dismiss those concerns of local communities not only does a disservice to members of this committee, it also does nothing to increase the trust of the fracking industry in those communities. In closing, i would argue that it is not some hypocritical Smear Campaign by. The federal government, but rather repeated attacks against epa and campa
The president of spain later today to express the condolences of the American People and to offer whatever assistance we can as they investigate what has proven to be an awful tragedy. The president said u. S. Officials trying to determine if any americans were on board. Well continue to follow this twopointing story. Well bring you updates here on news4 and on our nbc washington app. Back to you. A construction crew hit a water main in the district today sending water shooting up into the sky. Check it out. We have a bunch of photos and tweets about this on our nbc washington app today. This is happening along massachusetts avenue and second streets here in northwest d. C. This break sent water pouring down onto the northbound lanes there of i 395 at the mass avenue joef pass. D. C. Water has shut the water off but theyre warning drivers that it could be slow going while they fix the break. This afternoon the Loudoun County fire marshal is trying to figure out what caused a fire at an
A speech for antifracking activists where she says it is so sweet to come together in one room to tell the story of our victory. But there is more. We found a network of environmentally active foundations funding the groups that produced this paper some Media Outlets that covered the paper, and Campaign Organizations that pressure the colombo administration. These financial ties total 3. 7 million. More than 60 million at the campaign phase. This was not an isolated case. We found at least five more Research Papers cited by the Cuomo Administration were antifracking foundations that provided funding to the researchers, Media Outlets, and campaigns that sees the research to drum up political opposition to shale development. The antifracking work of these foundations was led by the Park Foundation best at ithaca, new york whose president has openly admitted to funding antifracking research and call campaigning. In effect, these foundations build an echo chamber to drown out the facts in
Rep. Smith the combination of hydraulic fracturing called fracking this technological breakthrough has helped create hundreds of thousands of jobs for the resurging Manufacturing Sector and has allowed the nation to become more energy independent. As with any type of technological process, any risk must be evaluated carefully. By the use of verifiable science. Unfortunately, opponents make claims based on the possibility and not the probability of associated risk. Environmental protections agencies have used this to wrongly assert a connection between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination. In texas, the epa issued an unprecedented order that halted Natural Gas Development only to have them investigate and find the epa was wrong. They released a report that found hydraulic fracturing caused water contamination. It was later discovered that the report had several glaring weaknesses. They failed to take into account naturally occurring natural gas. It was not peerreviewed. Th
Francisco to sacramento, floodwaters and fierce winds have been knocking out power to thousands of people. Some people who lived in the areas for decades say they have never seen anything like this. Thing just went up fast. Weve had previously where its gotten up real high but hasnt gotten this bad. Do you live right here in the park . Right here. Right here . Yeah, right there. I got my mom out. I took her down to a friends house down the street because you never know if water like this what its going to do. People are evacuating out of the cars, and as you see, you cant get out. I had to march up the hill and walk down the side hill to get in here. So its really, really very bad. Rob marciano is tracking the storms from the cnn Weather Center in atlanta. How is it looking in the near future, rob . Well, a bit of a break today, soledad. More rain coming tomorrow. You saw the folks dealing with the rain about fall, cars driving through it. The rivers rushing. But we have infrastructure