Today’s installment presents two (2) updates to formerly published EGISM blog posts. 


A. Update to December 19 and 25, 2012 posts concerning the on-going EPA study of Hydraulic fracturing and Water pollution. 


The following three (3) links are associated with the EPA Draft report announced in the Washington Post by Ben WOLFGANG on December 21, 2012, and due to be released in 2014:

 
        1)  Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources 
             Website

        2)  Summary of Technical Roundtables on EPA’s Study of the Potential Impacts of 
             Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources 
(            (U. S. EPA, 2012)

        3)  The Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle


B.  Update to the March 2, 2013 post regarding the recent STARRH versus Aera Energy litigation in Kern County Superior Court in California.


The first link is to an article written by Erik LOYD of the Bakersfield California.  It reports the Kern County Superior Court decision made in Fred STARRH’s continued pursuit of punitive damages from Aera Energy LLC due to their polluting the groundwater aquifer beneath his farm land. 


Kern Grower Gets Another Bumper Crop of Disappointment
(Bakersfield Californian; March 13, 2013)


The second link is for those who are interested in viewing the entire STARRH vs. Aera punitive damages proceeding between February 21, 2013 and March 8, 2013. At the link provided below, each courtroom session is available on demand at Courtroomview.com:



I will continue to following and post results on these on-going issues in the near future, as they become available.


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