State health agency doesn’t keep Marcellus database – News – The Times-Tribune

June 10, 2011

State health agency doesn’t keep Marcellus database – News – The Times-Tribune.

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (Associated Press)
Published: June 10, 2011

 

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health says it does not formally keep track of citizens’ health complaints about gas drilling and has not, as a result, linked drilling to any health consequences.

Agency spokeswoman Brandi Hunter-Davenport said Friday in response to an Associated Press inquiry that the department takes citizen complaints about drilling seriously. But she said the agency does not keep a complaint database, and she could not say how many complaints the agency has received and investigated.

The AP asked for the data after a northern Pennsylvania hairdresser named Crystal Stroud told an anti-drilling rally in Harrisburg this week that a gas well drilled near her home poisoned her well water and made her sick. A drilling firm denies her claims.

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