EPA delays Pavillion fracking report

Delayed: EPA to wait another eight months to finalise Pavillion fracking report

The US government is delaying for eight months a comment period on a report that offered the first evidence in decades that hydraulic fracturing contaminates water supplies.

The stall, the third on the 2011 draft report on water in Pavillion, Wyoming, is the latest example of the federal government delaying conclusions on whether fracking can lead to water contamination, as some environmentalists have claimed.

Drillers have said Environmental Protection Agency testing methods in Pavillion may have tainted water samples.

The comment period on the EPA report will now last until 30 September to allow residents, industry and local government more time to have their say and for the agency to include new data, an EPA spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.

The report, released by the EPA in…

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