Francis Roupp, a deputy director of the Bradford County emergency services, said "many thousands" of gallons of fracturing liquids were released after a blowout near the well head. Roupp was unsure how much liquid was released, but he said it is possible that hundreds of thousands of gallons could have been released and have spilled across acres of pasture and into a small tributary to a local river. (See the rest of the story here Truth-Out.org )This is the price of doing business as we search for alternative energy sources. Nuclear fears arise with problems like we have seen in Japan, Blowout preventors unfortunaltey become a household term with the problems we see with BP and now the Marcellus Shale exploration and drilling.
There is no easy answer to this in my opinion.
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