{"id":175715,"date":"2015-08-25T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=175715"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:54:22","slug":"pennsylvania-family-deals-water-contamination-linked-fracking-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/pennsylvania-family-deals-water-contamination-linked-fracking-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Family Deals With Water Contamination Linked to Fracking Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Chichura family has flammable well water, most likely due to a fracking job gone wrong in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Susquehanna County. Their water well, along with those of four of their neighbors, was allegedly contaminated with\u00a0methane in the fall of 2011, shortly after Cabot Oil started drilling operations near their\u00a0home.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) confirmed the Chichuras had methane in their water on September 21, 2011, and advised them to equip their well with a working vent to avoid a possible\u00a0ignition.<\/p>\n<p>The contamination of wells is not an anomaly.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/adminpage\/6696428-74\/wells-released-gas?fb=FuckFracking&amp;admin=A#a\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0DEP\u00a0identified 245 sites<\/a>\u00a0potentially contaminated by the fracking industry between 2008 and\u00a02014.<\/p>\n<p>As leaseholders with Cabot, the Chichuras believed the company would take care of them if anything went wrong. &#8220;Accidents will happen,&#8221; was the family&#8217;s thinking when their water first went bad, Elaine\u00a0Chichura\u00a0told\u00a0DeSmog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/32493-pennsylvania-family-deals-with-water-contamination-linked-to-fracking-industry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chichura family has flammable well water, most likely due to a fracking job gone wrong in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Susquehanna County. Their water well, along with those of four of their neighbors, was allegedly contaminated with\u00a0methane in the fall of 2011, shortly after Cabot Oil started drilling operations near their\u00a0home. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}