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Originally Posted by DuffMan
first I heard of it.
Do your parents have a well?
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They've got about five well sites on their land in total, one on the same section as their house and the others further away. They're on the Horseshoe Canyon formation, where it's all coal bed methane extraction.
For the most part they've got nothing but positive things to say about Encana, although mostly out of my own curiosity I keep an eye on what's going on there. And I'm not saying everything Encana is using is good; certainly I wouldn't want the used water entering the drinking supply - it does contain methanol, after all. Still, I think that the farming operations (including gasoline tanks, machine repairs, etc.) more or less directly over the aquifer would have posed more of a threat to the drinking supply over the years than relatively minor surface spills of highly-diluted methanol.