A new feature of Doddridge News and Fracking West Virginia. Bringing you a steady dose of useful info about shale gas drilling & fracking concerns. Courtesy of www.wvhostfarms.org
Did you know that the oil and gas industry is exempt from SEVEN key pieces of federal environmental laws? It’s true. In order for the industry to be able to do what they do (shale gas fracking) they have to have certain exemptions from federal EPA legislation. Many of the exemptions gained by the O&G Industry were result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, while other exemptions go back earlier than that. These exemptions allow the oil and gas industry to engage in practices that would otherwise be illegal...and ARE illegal for any other industry.
