16,000 gas-producing wells. Twenty-six air quality monitoring stations to cover a 5,000-square mile area more than twice the size of Delaware. This is life in Texas Barnett Shale, where there fracking boom started 15 years ago. The Barnett region is the longest-running experiment into what happens to people who live nearby fracking operations. But oil and gas emissions vary greatly — so quantifying them, or the potential health effects from them, is difficult. When emissions are bad, Texas residents can call the state environmental agency, but conditions can change as quickly as the wind changes. One man refers to the struggle as trying to chase air.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:07:03 +0000
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