Haney et al vs Range Resources

North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
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http://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi

May 25, 2012 a complaint was filed at Washington County Pa court:  Haney et al vs Range Resources.  This is a 1800 page document with emails and lab results the main point is that three families living in ancestral homes for several generations with good water found themselves drinking such polluted water that the toxins of Benzene, Toluene and Arsenic was found in all seven of the plaintives urine samples! Range and their 16 subcontractors and false professional engineers screwed up and all details are in the lawsuit which repeatedly emphasizes that they want a jury verdict—not a judge who must raise funds to get elected from guess who—the oil and gas giants.  Often such enbarassing lawsuits get squashed early on with a hefty settlement but for once we get to see all the dirty linen in this one right off the bat in the original complaint.  The industry decided to dump frack fluid from other wells into the impoundment at these families without any permit from state or feds.  Just complete lawlessness. The case is posted on this blog: http://www.texassharon.com/2012/05/26/families-sue-range-resources-for-fraud-and-contamination/

The point of all this is that the industry counts on lying and cheating and has no intention of accounting for the volume of brine or frack fluid and transporting the substances via GPS like other trucking industry functions full well and the politicians could demand it if they had honorable intentions.