After the drilling began on Terry Greenwood's farm, he says, "the water went bad -- it looked like iced tea."
In 2008, he recounted, "10 of my cows died. I don't want my cows to drink the water from the pond anymore, and we drink trucked water from a tank."
Greenwood, a white-bearded, grizzled former truck driver of 64, said he and his family used to use the water from a pond and a well on the property, but since the takeoff of natural gas fracking in the southwest corner of the state, "I've had nothing but trouble."
Fracking, the technique of hydraulically fracturing shale rock deep beneath the surface to release natural gas, has upended lives in the area, for the good and the bad.
Energy Daily
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