Rex Energy Cuts off Families’ Access to Safe Drinking Water after Contamination from Fracking

Rex Energy Cuts off Families’ Access to Safe Drinking Water after Contamination from Fracking by Iris Marie Bloom, March 1, 2012, EcoWatch
Rex has admitted that two of their Conoquenessing gas wells had casing failures in late 2010, shortly before Conoquenessing families, in an area called the Woodlands, reported that their water changed abruptly in January 2011….Workers have reported rashes and boils on their skin when working with drilling mud, according to Susquehanna County resident Rebecca Roter; the boils diminish or disappear only during weeks off.