State says still no definitive link between oil and gas industry and petroleum compounds discovered in water from some domestic wells.
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Gov Mead must deliver answers to fracking question in Pavillion pollution
Without buy-in from all stakeholders — especially the tribes and the Pavillion area residents — there can be no true resolution.
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Is Gov Mead’s exclusion charge against EPA hypocrisy?
Pavillion residents left out of groundwater pollution negotiations could take issue with Gov. Mead’s charge that Wyo. got excluded from regional haze talks.
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Wyoming embarks on groundwater monitoring rule for oil and gas development
This week, officials from Gov. Matt Mead’s staff, along with the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, set out to implement a plan that may help avoid Pavillion-type scenarios. State officials rolled out a proposed rule change to establish a baseline groundwater testing and monitoring program for oil and natural gas development.
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Pavillion collaboration resumes despite fractures
Pavillion collaboration resumes despite fractures The Pavillion Working Group met this week for the first time since November 2011, delayed by the controversy that erupted over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft report in December suggesting a link between groundwater pollution in the rural Pavillion area and hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking.” The controversy has proven more […]
