Comments on: Drilling Hazards and Homes: How Close is too Close? https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/09/22/drilling-hazards-and-homes-how-close-is-too-close/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: DR. JERRY A MOORE, PHD, JD https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/09/22/drilling-hazards-and-homes-how-close-is-too-close/#comment-1314 DR. JERRY A MOORE, PHD, JD Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:48:39 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=3077#comment-1314 I have a farm near Four States (WV). Just below my property line, which is a road, XTO started a permit 2 years ago, which I complained about to them and to the DEP Oil and Gas Inspector. They filled in two small wetlands and created a stream imbalance by filling in ecologically sensitive bottomland. Nobody acted and now the hillside is falling in from my private road. XTO had to build a fence of galvanized pipe and correct the slippage. A water well in the bottomland is less than 200 feet from a mobile home that I rent there. The young woman is pregnant and the noise will make my property and the mobile home worthless. They cannot be exposed to the fumes from drilling and fracking, let alone the frac water returning. A neighbor is negotiating with XTO for a 24 inch gas line through his property. We worry about ground contamination but the initial damage caused by drillers by filling in wetlands and riparian areas is far more environmentally damaging. Nobody has brought up this issue thus far in the Legislature. Jerry A. Moore. I have a farm near Four States (WV). Just below my property line, which is a road, XTO started a permit 2 years ago, which I complained about to them and to the DEP Oil and Gas Inspector. They filled in two small wetlands and created a stream imbalance by filling in ecologically sensitive bottomland. Nobody acted and now the hillside is falling in from my private road. XTO had to build a fence of galvanized pipe and correct the slippage.

A water well in the bottomland is less than 200 feet from a mobile home that I rent there. The young woman is pregnant and the noise will make my property and the mobile home worthless. They cannot be exposed to the fumes from drilling and fracking, let alone the frac water returning. A neighbor is negotiating with XTO for a 24 inch gas line through his property.

We worry about ground contamination but the initial damage caused by drillers by filling in wetlands and riparian areas is far more environmentally damaging. Nobody has brought up this issue thus far in the Legislature. Jerry A. Moore.

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